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From Ancient Greek μηνίσκος (mēnískos, “crescent”), from μήνη (mḗnē, “moon”).

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meniscus (plural meniscuses or menisci)

A crescent moon, or an object shaped like it. [from 17th c.]
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 554:
  And from Crabbe's own forehead sweat dripped or gathered into a kind of meniscus to be scooped off.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 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 [...].
(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.]
(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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 {{trans-top|either of two parts of the human knee}}
+* Arabic: {{t|ar|هِلَالَة|f}}
+* Belarusian: {{t|be|мені́ск|m}}
+* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|мени́скус|m}}
 * Catalan: {{t+|ca|menisc|m}}
 * Chinese:
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 * Finnish: {{t+|fi|nivelkierukka}}
 * French: {{t+|fr|ménisque|m}}
+* German: {{t+|de|Meniskus|m}}
 * Italian: {{t+|it|menisco|m}}
 * Japanese: {{t|ja|半月板|tr=はんげつばん, hangetsuban}}