A cusp is the most pointed end of a curve. It often refers to
cusp (anatomy), a pointed structure on a tooth.
Cusp or CUSP may also refer to:
Mathematics
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Cusp (singularity)
In mathematics, a cusp, sometimes called spinode in old texts, is a point on a curve where a moving point must reverse direction. A typical example is given in the figure. A cusp is thus a type of singular point of a curve.
For a plane curve def ...
, a singular point of a curve
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Cusp catastrophe
In mathematics, catastrophe theory is a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems; it is also a particular special case of more general singularity theory in geometry.
Bifurcation theory studies and classifies phenomena cha ...
, a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems
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Cusp form, in modular form theory
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Cusp neighborhood
In mathematics, a cusp neighborhood is defined as a set of points near a cusp singularity.
Cusp neighborhood for a Riemann surface
The cusp neighborhood for a hyperbolic Riemann surface can be defined in terms of its Fuchsian model.
Suppose ...
, a set of points near a cusp
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Cuspidal representation, a generalization of cusp forms in the theory of automorphic representations
Science and medicine
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Beach cusps, a pointed and regular arc pattern of the shoreline at the beach
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Behavioral cusp
A behavioral cusp is any behavior change that brings an organism's behavior into contact with new contingencies that have far-reaching consequences. A behavioral cusp is a special type of behavior change because it provides the learner with opp ...
, a change in behavior with far-reaching consequences
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Caltech-USGS Seismic Processing
Seismology (; from Ancient Greek σεισμός (''seismós'') meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (''-logía'') meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other ...
, software for analyzing earthquake data
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Center for Urban Science and Progress, a graduate school of New York University focusing on urban informatics
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CubeSat for Solar Particles, a satellite launched in 2022
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Cusp (anatomy), a pointed structure on a tooth
** Nuclear cusp condition, in
electron density
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Cusps of heart valves, leaflets of a heart valve
Other uses
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Cusp (astrology)
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''Cusp'' (film), a 2021 American documentary following three teenage girls at the end of summer
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''Cusp'' (novel), a 2005 science fiction story by Robert A. Metzger
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Cusp Conference, an annual gathering of thinkers, innovators, etc. from various fields
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Cusp generation
A cusper is a person born near the end of one generation and the beginning of another. People born in these circumstances tend to have a mix of characteristics common to their adjacent generations, but do not closely resemble those born in the ...
, a name given to those born during the transitional years of two generations
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