spline
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1. spline - Noun
2. spline - Verb
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A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece.
A long, flexble piece of wood sometimes used as a ruler.
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A fundamental theorem states that every spline function of a given degree, smoothness, and domain partition, can be uniquely represented as a linear combination of B-splines of that same degree and smoothness, and over that same partition.
A spline is a rubber coated articulated metal that can be manually bent to most curves.
Once the propeller is removed, the splined tube can be cut away with a grinder and a new spline bushing is then required.
Some derivatives of the spline function may also be continuous, depending on whether the knots are distinct or not.
For instance, the natural cubic spline is piecewise cubic and twice continuously differentiable.
ServoBlocks increase a servo’s load-bearing capabilities by helping to isolate the lateral load from the servo spline and case.