Spline vs. Spine — What's the Difference?

Any of a series of projections on a shaft that fit into slots on a corresponding shaft, enabling both to rotate together.

A series of vertebrae extending from the skull to the small of the back, enclosing the spinal cord and providing support for the thorax and abdomen; the backbone

The groove or slot for such a projection.

The part of a book's jacket or cover that encloses the inner edges of the pages, facing outwards when the book is on a shelf and typically bearing the title and the author's name.

A flexible piece of wood, hard rubber, or metal used in drawing curves.

Any hard, pointed defensive projection or structure, such as a prickle of a hedgehog, a spike-like projection on a sea urchin, a sharp ray in a fish's fin, or a spike on the stem of a plant.

A wooden or metal strip; a slat.

A linear pay scale operated by some large organizations that allows flexibility for local and specific conditions.

Long thin piece of metal or wood.

A tall mass of viscous lava extruded from a volcano

(woodworking) A strip of wood or other material inserted into grooves in each of two pieces of wood to provide additional surface for gluing.

The spinal column of a vertebrate.

A flexible strip of metal or other material, that may be bent into a curve and used in a similar manner to a ruler to draw smooth curves between points.

(Zoology) Any of various pointed projections, processes, or appendages of animals.

Any of a number of smooth curves used to join points. Category:en:Curves

A strong, sharp-pointed outgrowth derived from a leaf or leaf part.

A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together.

Any of various similar sharp structures, such as a thorn.

(mechanics) Ridges or teeth on a drive shaft that mesh with grooves in a mating piece and transfer torque to it, maintaining the angular correspondence between them.

The hinged back of a book.

To smooth (a curve or surface) by means of a spline.

The crest of a ridge.

(engineering) To fit with a spline.

Strength of character; courage or willpower.

(engineering) To fasten to or together with a spline.

A series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a human, or from the head to the tail of an animal, enclosing the spinal cord and providing support for the thorax and abdomen.

A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece.

(figurative) Courage or assertiveness.

A long, flexble piece of wood sometimes used as a ruler.

Something resembling a backbone, such as a ridge, or a long, central structure from which other structures radiate.

A flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines

The narrow, bound edge of a book that encloses the inner edges of the pages, facing outwards when the book is on a shelf and typically bearing the title and the author's and publisher's name.

A thin strip (wood or metal)

A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needlelike structure on an animal, shell, or plant.

(botany) The heartwood of trees.

(neuroscience) dendritic spine.

A linear payscale operated by some large organizations that allows flexibility for local and specific conditions.

(geology) A tall mass of viscous lava extruded from a volcano.

The stiffness of an arrow.

A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.

A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.

The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; - so called from the projecting processes upon the vertebræ.

Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.

The series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord;

Any pointed projection

A sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf

A sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin