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Added 9 October 2026

tilting

verb

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present participle and gerund of tilt

noun

The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
A charging with (or as if with) a lance, as in jousting.

adjective

Having the property that it is the quotient of a projective module by a projective submodule, having an ext functor with itself of 0, and there being a right module as the kernel of a surjective morphism between finite direct sums of its direct summands.

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