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Definition of 'tapering' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) tapering
the act of gradually lowering the size or amount
"the doctor prescribed the tapering of the dose"

2. (adj) tapered, tapering, narrowing
becoming gradually narrower
"long tapering fingers"; "trousers with tapered legs"

3. (adj) dwindling, tapering, tapering off
gradually decreasing until little remains


Definition of 'tapering' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) tapering
becoming gradually smaller toward one end

2.  tapering
of Taper


Translation of 'tapering' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: becoming narrower or slimmer at one end
tapering fingers.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: afgedun Arabic flag Arabic: مُسْتَدِق الطَّرَف Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: заострен
Brazilian flag Brazilian: afilado Czech flag Czech: špičatý German flag German: spitz zulaufend
Danish flag Danish: tilspidset Greek flag Greek: μυτερός, λεπτός στην άκρη Spanish flag Spanish: afilado
Estonian flag Estonian: kitsenev, terava otsaga Farsi flag Farsi: نوک تیز Finnish flag Finnish: kapeneva
French flag French: fuselé Hebrew flag Hebrew: מְצֵר Hindi flag Hindi: नुक़ीली, सूच्याग्र
Croatian flag Croatian: stanjen, zašiljen Hungarian flag Hungarian: fokozatosan vékonyodó Indonesian flag Indonesian: meruncing
Icelandic flag Icelandic: uppmjókkandi, sem smámjók Italian flag Italian: affusolato Japanese flag Japanese: 先細の
Korean flag Korean: 끝으로 갈수록 가늘어지는 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: smailėjantis Latvian flag Latvian: konusveidīgs; nosmailināt
Malay flag Malay: tirus; runcing Dutch flag Dutch: spits toelopend Norwegian flag Norwegian: som løper ut i en spiss
Polish flag Polish: zwężający się Portuguese flag Portuguese: afilado Romanian flag Romanian: alun­git
Russian flag Russian: сужающийся Slovak flag Slovak: špicatý Slovenian flag Slovenian: koničast
Serbian flag Serbian: koji se sužava Swedish flag Swedish: avsmalnande, långsmal Thai flag Thai: ซึ่งเรียวลงและแคบลงทีละน้
Turkish flag Turkish: ucuna doğru incelen parma Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 漸漸變細的, 錐形的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: загострений
Urdu flag Urdu: سوکھا ہوا Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: hình nón, vót nhọn Chinese flag Chinese: 渐渐变细的,锥形的

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