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/vˈænɪʃɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Vanish v. i. (past & past part. vanished; pres. part. vanishing)

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." "Go; vanish into air; away!" "The champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning." "Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among realities."

To be annihilated or lost; to pass away. "All these delights will vanish."

noun

Vanishing n. A. & n. from Vanish, v.

Vanishing fraction (Math.), a fraction which reduces to the form 0/0 for a particular value of the variable which enters it, usually in consequence of the existence of a common factor in both terms of the fraction, which factor becomes 0 for this particular value of the variable.

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.

Vanishing stress (Phon.), stress of voice upon the closing portion of a syllable.

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"Vanishing" Quotes from Famous Books

... voices seemed to sound in the room behind her, trying to tell her something—to warn her—and it was in vain that she tried to shake off their influence. Once or twice she caught a glimpse of a black shadow over her shoulder, just a reflecting vanishing glimpse, and when she turned hastily round there was nothing there, but the voices, mocking and gibbering, ...

— The Black Creek Stopping-House • Nellie McClung

... murmured Pollyanna, looking wistfully after the vanishing figure. "She was nice, but she was sort of different, too," she commented, rising to her feet and ...

— Pollyanna Grows Up • Eleanor H. Porter

... so-called "wickedness" of higher men has in a certain measure been able to resist this lopping process which successive slave-moralities have practised; but signs are not wanting which show that the noblest wickedness is fast vanishing from society—the wickedness of courage and determination—and that Nietzsche had good reasons for crying: "Ah, that (man's) baddest is so very small! Ah, that his best is so very small. What is good? To be brave is good! It ...

— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche

... sootiness of the negro's body. Altogether the scene was somewhat peculiar, at least to Captain Delano, nor, as he saw the two thus postured, could he resist the vagary, that in the black he saw a headsman, and in the white a man at the block. But this was one of those antic conceits, appearing and vanishing in a breath, from which, perhaps, the best regulated mind is ...

— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville

... At length the vanishing-point was reached, and horse and rider rounded the bend. And immediately the reason was made plain. But even the reason sank into insignificance before the splendor of the scene which ...

— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum

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