sharpening

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sharpening

  1. present participle and gerund of sharpen

Noun

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sharpening (plural sharpenings)

  1. The act by which something is sharpened.
    • 1970, Heinrich Wölfflin, Drawings of Albrecht Dürer, page 4:
      There are flourishes and coloratura passages in this art, heightenings and sharpenings of the line that serve only to give the needy linear system a value of its own in confrontation with nature.
  2. (in the plural) The debris produced when a pencil is sharpened.

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