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Word: Acuminating
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
late 18th century; earliest use found in Richard Kirwan (1733–1812), chemist and mineralogist. From acuminate + -ing
Definition:
Tapering or narrowing to a point; (Mineralogy, of three or more planes) meeting so as to form a point by their intersection (now rare).
