noun
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A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
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The opening of the vagina.
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A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
verb
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To cut a narrow opening.
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He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.
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To split into strips by lengthwise cuts.
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To cut; to sever; to divide.
adjective
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Having a cut narrow opening
Examples of slit in a Sentence
A man stood next to it, peeking through a slit in the vertical slats.
The female lays her eggs in a slit made by means of her "saw-like" ovipositor in the leaf or fruit of a tree.
Thus the Virgin river, a northern branch of the Colorado, has cut a vertical slit, 1000 ft.
Unfortunately considerations of luminosity compel the observer often to widen the slit much beyond the range within which the theoretical value of resolving power holds in practice.
When the slit is narrow light is lost through diffraction unless the angular aperture of this condensing lens, as viewed from the slit, is considerably greater than that of the collimator lens.
When it is slit open from in front a longitudinal ridge is seen in its posterior wall, which is called the verumontanum or crista urethra, and on each side of this is a longitudinal depression, the prostatic sinus, into which numerous ducts of the prostate open, though some of them open on to the antero-lateral surface.
If a short length of platinum wire be inserted vertically into a lighted Bunsen burner the luminous line may be used as a slit and viewed directly through a prism.
The collimator has a vertical slit at its outer end, the width of which may be regulated by a micrometer screw; in some instruments one half of the slit is covered by a small total reflection prism which permits the examination of two spectra simultaneously.
The mouth, a longitudinal slit, opens on to the ventral surface of the head.
When with a fairly wide slit the yellow line is no longer visible, the residual nitrogen may be considered to have fallen below 2 or 3%.
In its simplest form it consists of a direct-vision spectroscope, having an adjustable slit (called "camera slit"), instead of an eyepiece, in the focal plane of the observing telescope.
This slit is set in such a position as to transmit a single line of the spectrum, e.g.
The spectroscope is then moved parallel to itself, admitting to the collimator slit light from all parts of the sun's disk.
This slit is long enough (82 in.) to extend entirely across the solar image and across such prominences of ordinary height as may happen to lie at the extremities of a vertical diameter.
After passing through the slit the diverging rays fall upon the 8 in.
Hence light from any point on the slit will fill a circle about 2 in.
This paper presents a new method for localization of PRL with a modified slit lamp.
Air samples were taken continuously every two minutes with a Casella slit sampler placed within 1 meter of the dental chair.
Slit the antimesenteric border of the ileum with dissecting scissors to increase the its circumference.
They take the cataract out through a tiny slit at the edge of the sac that contains the clouded lens.
Dead bodies with their throats slit lay in the streets.
The exit slit is movable (± 10 cm ).
Top stage has two waterspouts and a cross slit in a merlon.
The so-called " diffraction " image of a homogeneously illuminated slit shows a central band limited on either side by a line along which the ' Michelson, Astrophys.
Dresses for the slightly more adventurous girl include the slit leg style, varied length dresses, one-strap and strapless styles.
The shirred waistband flatters any figure and the front slit and built-in brief provides comfort.
Under these circumstances the arc to be considered is bisected at 0, and its length is proportional to the width of the slit.
On making a mesial vertical section of the uterus the cavity is seen as a mere slit which is bent about its middle to form an angle the opening of which is forward.
As the orifice is neared the slit becomes H-shaped.
The lachrymal foramen in the skull is low down and forms an elongated slit.
Next follows the operation of cleaning, in which the silk is simply reeled from one bobbin to another, but on its way it passes through a slit which is sufficiently wide to pass the filament but stops the motion when a thick lump or nib is presented.
The Five-foot Spectroheliograph of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory (camera lens, camera slit and plate carrier in section).
The slit of the collimator confines the light to a nearly linear source, the beam diverging from each point of the source being subsequently made parallel by means of a lens.
The telescope serves to examine the image of the slit and to measure the angular separation of the different slit images; when photographic methods are employed the telescope is replaced by a camera.
We may say therefore that if the difference between the frequencies n 1 and n, of the two waves is such that in the combined image of the slit the intensity at the minimum between -the two maxima falls to 0.81, the lines are just resolved and n l /(n l n 2) may then be called the resolving power.
Lord Rayleigh's expression for the resolving power of different instruments is based on the assumption that the geometrical image of the slit is narrow compared with the width of the diffraction image.
With an indefinitely narrow slit the purity is equal to the resolving power.
We call a slit of this width a " normal slit.
With a slit equal in width to eight times the normal one the purity is reduced to o 45R, so that we lose rather more than half the resolving power and increase the light 3.7 times.
If we widen the slit still further rapid loss of purity results, with very little gain in light, the maximum luminosity obtainable with an indefinitely wide slit being four times that obtained with the normal one.
This forms an image of the solar spectrum in its focal plane on the camera slit (1).
In order to bring a spectral line upon the camera slit, the slit is widely opened and the plane mirror (f) rotated until the line is seen.
The slit is narrowed down to the desired width, and moved as a whole by a micrometer screw, until it coincides with the cross-hair.
By setting the camera slit so as to admit to the photographic plate the light of the denser calcium vapour, which lies at low levels, or that of the rarer vapour at high levels, the phenomena of various superposed regions of the atmosphere can be recorded.
A horizontal incision is made in the bark quite down to the wood, and from this a perpendicular slit is drawn upwards to the extent of perhaps an inch, so that the slit has a resemblance to the letter T, as at a.
In about a month or six weeks the ligatures may be removed or slit with the knife to allow for the swelling stem, when, if the operation has been successful, the bud will be fresh and full, and the shield firmly united to the wood.
The record is obtained by the light from a small lamp reflected downwards by a mirror so as to pass through a slit in a small plate attached to the outer end of the boom.
The short streak of light thus obtained moves with Mirror, .l 4,Stindd Boom Balance Weight, j/?/?j?jj/ Masonry Column Lamp Br.mide Paper_ On- Need,Le o 0 the movement of the boom over a second slit perpendicular to the first and made in the lid of a box containing clockwork driving a band of bromide paper.
The passage of the long hand of a watch across the end of the slit every hour cuts off the light, and gives hour marks enabling the observer to learn the time at which a disturbance has taken place.
The escape of zoospores is effected by the degeneration of the sporangial wall (Chaetophora), or by a pore (Cladophora), a slit (Pediastrum), or a circular fracture (Oedogonium).