Cusp
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Cusp may refer to:
- Beach cuspsBeach cuspsBeach cusps are shoreline formations made up of various grades of sediment in an arc pattern. The horns are made up of coarser materials and the embayment contains all the finer grain sediment. They can be found all over the world and are most noticeable on shorelines with coarser sediment such as...
, a pointed and regular arc pattern of the shoreline at the beach - Behavioral cuspBehavioral cuspA behavioral cusp is any behavior change that brings an organism's behavior into contact with new contingencies that have far-reaching consequences...
(psychology) an important behavior change with far reaching consequences - Cusp catastrophe
- Cusp (astrology)Cusp (astrology)In astrology, a cusp is the imaginary line that separates a pair of consecutive signs in the zodiac or houses in the horoscope....
, a boundary between zodiac signs and houses - Cusp (dentistry)Cusp (dentistry)A cusp is an occlusal or incisal eminence on a tooth.Canine teeth, otherwise known as cuspids, each possess a single cusp, while premolars, otherwise known as bicuspids, possess two each. Molars normally possess either four or five cusps...
, a pointed structure on a cuspid, premolar, or molar - Cusp (singularity)Cusp (singularity)In the mathematical theory of singularities a cusp is a type of singular point of a curve. Cusps are local singularities in that they are not formed by self intersection points of the curve....
, (geometry and astrophysics) a singular point of a curve - Cusp formCusp formIn number theory, a branch of mathematics, a cusp form is a particular kind of modular form, distinguished in the case of modular forms for the modular group by the vanishing in the Fourier series expansion \Sigma a_n q^n...
in modular form theory - Cusp (novel)Cusp (novel)Cusp is a science fiction novel written by Robert A. Metzger, in the category of hard science fiction. It deals with two perpendicular rings running along the Earth's surface, that act as cosmic jets, using ionized hydrogen....
, a science fiction story by Robert A. Metzger - Cusps of heart valvesCusps of heart valvesThe cusps of the heart valves serve to seal the heart valves when closed. There are three cusps for each valve except for the mitral valve, which has only two ....
, leaflets of a heart valve - Cuspidal representationCuspidal representationIn number theory, cuspidal representations are certain representations of algebraic groups that occur discretely in L^2 spaces. The term cuspidal is derived, at a certain distance, from the cusp forms of classical modular form theory...
, a generalization of cusp forms in the theory of automorphic representations - CUSP (Project), Carleton University Simulator Project