vanishing

4 definitions found

vanishing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Vanish \Van"ish\ (v[a^]n"[i^]sh), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vanished
     (v[a^]n"[i^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Vanishing.] [OE.
     vanissen, OF. vanir (in comp.): cf. OF. envanir, esvanir,
     esvanu["i]r, F. s'['e]vanouir; fr. L. vanus empty, vain; cf.
     L. vanescere, evanescere, to vanish. See Vain, and cf.
     Evanescent,-ish.]
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     1. To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of
        sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the
        sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight
        of spectators on land.
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              The horse vanished . . . out of sight. --Chaucer.
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              Go; vanish into air; away!            --Shak.
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              The champions vanished from their posts with the
              speed of lightning.                   --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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              Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among
              realities.                            --Hawthorne.
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     2. To be annihilated or lost; to pass away. "All these
        delights will vanish." --Milton.
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  Vanishing \Van"ish*ing\,
     a. & n. from Vanish, v.
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     Vanishing fraction (Math.), a fraction which reduces to the
        form 0/0 for a particular value of the variable which
        enters it, usually in consequence of the existence of a
        common factor in both terms of the fraction, which factor
        becomes 0 for this particular value of the variable.
        --Math. Dict.
  
     Vanishing line (Persp.), the intersection of the parallel
        of any original plane and the picture; one of the lines
        converging to the vanishing point.
  
     Vanishing point (Persp.), the point to which all parallel
        lines in the same plane tend in the representation.
        --Gwilt.
  
     Vanishing stress (Phon.), stress of voice upon the closing
        portion of a syllable. --Rush.
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vanishing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  vanishing
      n 1: a sudden or mysterious disappearance
      2: a sudden disappearance from sight

vanishing - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "vanishing":
     blackout, blocking, dematerialization, departure, disappearance,
     disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving,
     eclipse, elimination, erasure, evanescence, evanescent,
     evaporating, evaporation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading,
     fleeting, flying, fugitive, going, melting, occultation, passing,
     transient, vanishing point, wipe