Look up: cuneiform

1. cuneiform
   Type: Term Pronunciation: kū′ne-i-fōrm Definitions: 1. Wedge-shaped. See: intermediate cuneiform (bone), lateral cuneiform (bone), medial cuneiform (bone)
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2. cuneiform
   [adj] - (anatomy) of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones) 2. [n] - an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
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3. cuneiform
   Ancient writing system formed of combinations of wedge-shaped strokes, usually impressed on clay. It was probably invented by the Sumerians, and was in use in Mesopotamia as early as...
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4. Cuneiform
   The wedge-shaped depressions made by the ancient Mesopotamians into clay in order to inscribe the characters of their written language. It was in Mesopotamia, around 3100 BCE, that writing appeared for the first time in the world. The Urartians also used a similar lettering style.
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5. Cuneiform
   Cu·ne'i·form adjective [ Latin cuneus a wedge + -form : confer French cunei-forme . See Coin .] 1. Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of a...
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6. cuneiform
   Wedge-shaped. ... See: intermediate cuneiform bone, lateral cuneiform bone, medial cuneiform bone. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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7. cuneiform
   adjective of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones)
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8. cuneiform
   noun an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia
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9. cuneiform
   (ku-ne´ĭ-form) wedge-shaped; applied particularly to three of the tarsal bones of the foot (cuneiform bones).
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10. Cuneiform
    • (a.) Alt. of Cuniform • (n.) Alt. of Cuniform
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11. cuneiform
    system of writing used in the ancient Middle East. The name, a coinage from Latin and Middle French roots meaning `wedge-shaped`, has been the modern ... [14 related articles]
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12. cuneiform
    cuneiform 1. With the narrowly triangular shape of a wedge. 2. Being a character, or characters, formed by the arrangement of small wedge-shaped elements and used in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian writing. 3. A description of the clay tablets on which cuneiform scrip...
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13. cuneiform
    cuneiform (kyOOnē'ifôrm) [Lat.,=wedge-shaped], system of writing developed before the last centuries of the 4th millennium B.C. in the lower Tigris and Euphrates valley, probably by the Sumerians. The characters consist of arrangements of wedgelike strokes generally impressed with a ...
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14. Cuneiform
    Cuneiform describes the form of writing used in inscriptions by the ancient Babylonians, Persians and Hittites. The characters are all in the form of a wedge and were developed from earlier ideographs and represent not so much individual characters as syllables or entire words.
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15. cuneiform
    Ancient writing system formed of combinations of wedge-shaped strokes, usually impressed on clay. It was probably invented by the Sumerians, and was in use in Mesopotamia as early as the middle of the 4th millennium BC. It was adopted and modified by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Elamites, Hittites, Persians, and many other peoples with different...
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16. cuneiform
    adjective, Latin cuneus = wedge, hence wedge-shaped.
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17. Cuneiform
    (anatomy) There are three `cuneiform` bones in the human foot: They are located between the navicular bone and the first, second and third metatarsal bones and are medial to the cuboid bone. Additional images: <gallery> Image:Gray269.png|Bones of the right foot. Plantar Surface. Image:Gray...
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18. Cuneiform
    (Unicode block) In `Unicode`, the Sumero-Akkadian `Cuneiform script` is covered in two `blocks`: These blocks, in version 6.0, are in the in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP). The sample glyphs in the chart file published by the Unicode Consortium show the characters in their Classic...
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19. CuneiForm
    (software) In computer software, `CuneiForm` is an OCR tool. It was originally developed at Cognitive Technologies and, after a few years with no development, released as freeware on December 12, 2007. The kernel of OCR engine was released under the open source BSD license license at the begi...
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