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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 376: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., from (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 376: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS.

Lua error in Module:parameters at line 376: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /mɛˈnɪs.kəs/, /məˈnɪs.kəs/
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Audio (US): (file)

meniscus (plural meniscuses or menisci)

A crescent moon, or an object shaped like it. [from 17th c.]
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 19:
  He opened wide both casements; they gave on a parking place four floors below; the thin meniscus overhead was too wan to illumine the roofs of the houses descending toward the invisible lake [...].
(deprecated template usage) (optics) A lens which is convex on one side and concave on the other, being crescent-shaped in cross-section. [from 17th c.]
The curved surface of liquids in tubes, whether concave or convex, caused by the surface tension of the liquid. [from 19th c.]
(deprecated template usage) (anatomy) Either of two parts of the human knee that provide structural integrity to the knee when it undergoes tension and torsion. [from 19th c.]

the curved surface of liquids

a crescent

either of two parts of the human knee

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 * French: {{t+|fr|ménisque|m}}
 * Russian: {{t+|ru|мениск|m|tr=m'enísk}}
+* Swedish: {{t+|sv|menisk|c}}
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