Crossword-Solution: MENISCUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Meniscus | n. | A crescent. |
| Meniscus | n. | A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. |
| Meniscus | n. | An interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; esp., one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MENISCUS | anagram | CMINUSES |
We have 21 clues for the answer “MENISCUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Crescent-shaped thing. | 1 answer |
| the curved upper surface of a nonturbulent liquid in a vertical tube | 1 answer |
| curved surface of a liquid | 1 answer |
| The curved upper surface of a liqud in a tube | 1 answer |
| Surface of a liquid, curved like a lens | 1 answer |
| SURFACE curve of liquid | 1 answer |
| Lens-shaped surface | 1 answer |
| Lens with a crescent-shaped section | 1 answer |
| Knee cartilage | 1 answer |
| Full-glass phenomenon | 1 answer |
| Disk of cartilage in the knee | 1 answer |
| Crescent-shaped section of a lens | 1 answer |
| Crescent-shaped part of a lens | 1 answer |
| Concavo-convex lens | 1 answer |
| CRESCENT surface | 1 answer |
| CRESCENT body | 1 answer |
| Anatomical shock absorber | 1 answer |
| CURVED surface | 2 answers |
| BINOCULAR LENS | 10 answers |
| LENS | 10 answers |
| Crescent | 13 answers |
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Sentences with MENISCUS (5)
Lenses for the photographic camera are now always ground of a concavo-convex form, or meniscus, which corresponds more nearly to the accompanying diagram.” [Illustration: Fig.
The outer lens is a meniscus--that is bounded by a concave and convex spherical surface which meet--having a focal length of 18 inches.
The judges were Meniscus the dancing-master, and my brother Lamprias; for he danced the Pyrrhic very well, and in the Palaestra none could match him for the graceful motion of his hands and arms in dancing.
This I did quite elaborately, and proved that such constant errors as exist are small compared with inevitable accidental errors, as, for example, that there was no measurable correction for capillarity, that the calculated volume of the "meniscus" was correct, etc.
The computation is made as follows n = height of the cylinder inclosing the air; c = a factor which, multiplied by n, converts it into cubic millimeters; S = cubic contents of the meniscus; d = difference of level between A and B, fig.
Quotes with MENISCUS (3)
Sometimes when she woke from a flabbergasting dream Liz would lie very still to see if she could net it before it fled; perfectly still, eyes closed, not moving her head, as if the slightest shift would tip the story-bearing liquid, break its fragile meniscus and spill the night’s elusive catch.
The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.
I eagerly await the day when there is a replacement for the meniscus.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, New Yorker, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1959–2023).