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Taper meaning
A slender wax candle. | A small light. | A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
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Design Flagpoles can be designed in one piece with a taper (typically a steel taper or a Greek entasis taper), citation or be made from multiple pieces to make them able to expand.
In simplified terms, a fast taper will bend a lot more in the tip area and not much in the butt part, a slow taper will tend to bend too much at the butt and delivers a weak rod.
Modern design In theory, an ideal rod should gradually taper from butt to tip, be tight in all its joints (if any), and have a smooth, progressive taper, without 'dead spots'.
Forecasters say the rain should taper off over parts of Metro Vancouver on Saturday morning but persist in the Fraser Valley until the evening.
Gatineau, meanwhile, will only taper off to flurries in the afternoon.
It started to taper in the second half of June after the monsoon set in.
Not long though after we penned that piece, growth began to taper off pretty significantly in PPC and the share price has suffered as a result.
Rain will taper off by late morning.
So I would expect that as we move forward, some of these things are going to continue to benefit and then some, certainly, the onetime type of things like the defense and hydroxide are going to taper off.
So, she's trying to taper them off the drugs and on to others.
The temporary closure of the prestigious Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and other announcements have rocked our industry.
To pave the way for this transition, Congress should taper its practice of sending Ukraine more money that we don’t have and tell Europe it must start paying the majority of the war’s cost.
With the execution of the said program, PLDT was able to taper its capital expenditures (capex) overspend to P33 billion.
A coloured taper is fixed in the upper quill, and lighted on Christmas Eve.
By keeping bill issuance high, Treasury is able not only to counteract the QT performed by the Fed but also to force the Fed to taper QT.
Light rain will continue to taper off as we progress through the morning hours.
Light snow fell overnight and will begin to taper through the morning hours.
Mumbai, November 23 (IANS) The heavy selling by the foreign institutional investors (FIIs) in India is set to taper off soon as valuations of large-caps have also come down from the elevated levels, market watchers said on Saturday.
She expects the increase to eventually taper off.
Snow will begin to taper off on Sunday with one cm of snow accumulation expected.