vanishing
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Van·ish v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vanished p. pr. & vb. n. Vanishing.]
1. To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.
The horse vanished . . . out of sight. --Chaucer.
Go; vanish into air; away! --Shak.
The champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning. --Sir W. Scott.
Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among realities. --Hawthorne.
2. To be annihilated or lost; to pass away. “All these delights will vanish.”
Van·ish·ing a. & n. from Vanish, v.
Vanishing fraction Math., a fraction which reduces to the form
Vanishing line Persp., the intersection of the parallel of any original plane and the picture; one of the lines converging to the vanishing point.
Vanishing point Persp., the point to which all parallel lines in the same plane tend in the representation. --Gwilt.
Vanishing stress Phon., stress of voice upon the closing portion of a syllable. --Rush.
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vanishing
adj : quickly going away and passing out of sight; "all I saw was
his vanishing back" [syn: disappearing]
n 1: a sudden or mysterious disappearance
2: suddenly disappearing from sight