SHARPNESS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of sharpness in English
sharpness noun [U]
(CUTTING/HURTING )
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sharpness noun [U]
(CLEARNESS )
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sharpness noun [U]
(QUICKNESS OF PERSON )
The player still has some way to go before he regains his sharpness.
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sharpness noun [U]
(OF TASTE )
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sharpness noun [U]
(SUDDEN )
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(Definition of sharpness from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of sharpness
sharpness
No artificial dissipation is added in shocks and in particular, it has the desirable property of keeping the sharpness of shock profiles.
You will rarely see better quality photographs of glaciers in terms of sharpness , contrast and composition.
Theoryconscious but unpretentious, the composer and researcher musicalised juxtapositions, both stimulating perception and reflecting its sharpness .
Placed against such a universal background, the individual chapters gain an additional coherence and sharpness .
The sharpness of the bound is demonstrated by a random graph (see the next subsection).
This does not always happen in a field that values critical sharpness above everything.
For needles, the issues are strength and sharpness .
Each single printed line contains an edge sharpness .
We also discuss the sharpness of our results in the case > 0.
For example, since sharpness increases with the addition of higher-frequency partials, line addition seems an appropriate term to use for this dimension of timbre.
Each reflects its own individual colour, participating to one or another degree in the extremes of flatness and sharpness .
Even at highest aperture 1.4 the depth of sharpness is about 60 mm.
Both simulation and experimental results show an a-symmetry: the back edge sharpness is better than the front edge sharpness .
I discuss below other possible reasons why such debate as there has been on gender aspects of land tenure reform has lacked conceptual sharpness .
The pipette was then beveled to the desired size (;3 mm) and sharpness .
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Translations of sharpness
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銳度, 嚴厲, 尖刻…
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锐度, 严厉, 尖刻…
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agudeza [feminine, singular]…
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corte [masculine], violência [feminine], esperteza [feminine]…
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tranchant [masculine], angle [masculine] brusque, acuité [feminine]…
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