Splines

What do we mean by splines?

Long thin piece of metal or wood.

A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together.

A flexible strip of metal or other material, that may be bent into a curve and used in a similar manner to a ruler to draw smooth curves between points.

Any of a number of smooth curves used to join points.

A strip of wood or other material inserted into grooves in each of two pieces of wood to provide additional surface for gluing.

Ridges or teeth on a drive shaft that mesh with grooves in a mating piece and transfer torque to it, maintaining the angular correspondence between them.

Objects that must be reticulated before any Sim game may be operated. Urban Dictionary

The object which Maxis likes to reticulate. Urban Dictionary

The Spline is a sophisticated party act only performed by top tier beak lovers and ganja gurus. It involves two meticulous moves. One move requires a swift but conserved inhale of a perfectly prepared spliff. The THC must be then held in your lungs while simultaneously sniffing an Everest sized amount of cocaine through crisp, freshly rolled £20. If successful you have performed the infamous Spline. Toms and Jamess have a sacred duty to perform the Spline when cocaine and weed are present at a party. Urban Dictionary

A combination organ between the spine and the spleen. One which doesn't exist, but you should ask the stoner people how it's doing anyways. Urban Dictionary

To partake in anal sex without lubrication. derived from the material used to install screens, which must be forced into place using a spliner. Urban Dictionary

The word shouted as someone drives a bus though a house and off the cliff on the other side after asking the kids if they want to do to heaven. Urban Dictionary

Nonsense technobabble used in a production context. Reticulating splines started off as an in-joke at Maxis and grew to fame with the widespread popularity of The Sims. While it does have a "real" meaning, this definition isn't actually correct in the context of its use. It's really a programming joke. Reticulating splines is essentially filler. Don't want to describe what's holding up the program? It's reticulating splines. Why isn't the Internet working? The splines aren't reticulated. Heck, don't want to explain your calculus assignment? We're reticulating splines this week. See also processor gremlins for the computer hardware equivalent. Urban Dictionary

V. A necessary computation performed by numerous Maxis Sim games. Content simply cannot be generated without meticulous reticulation. See: reticulatingsplines on ytmnd for further information. Urban Dictionary

The process of combining many short lines and curves into longer, interpolated ones called "splines." Also, the process of combining many imprecise and abstract ideas into one larger, complex one. Urban Dictionary

Constructing network based functions that are defined by divisible intervals while approximating said network and composing it of pieces of simple functions defined on subintervals and joined at their endpoints with a suitable degree of smoothness. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to splines:
splines, spline, spines, splints, splined, salines, splices.

Words that rhyme with splines:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe splines:
cubic, internal, multivariate, rational, quadratic, adaptive, linear, thin, natural, polynomial, inner, uniform, helical, external, involute, parametric, bicubic, multiple, beta, dimensional, closed, spherical, periodic, vertical, bezier, cardinal, bivariate, open, univariate, straight, rom, outer, damaged, shaft, continuous, exponential, extra, conic, rear, worn, joint, generalized, spiral, smooth, piecewise, plate, twisted, trigonometric, flexible, narrow, universal, sided, polyharmonic, discrete, additive, weighted, nonuniform, called, knot, triangular, octree, lubricate, check, horizontal, sectional, editable, degree, circular, parabolic, side, wooden, front, quintic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective splines:
surfaces, functions, box, parameterization, representation.

Consonant match to splines:
spleens.

Words that sound like splines:
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