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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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Etymology of 'Vanishing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vanishing" Quotes from Famous Books

... rather to accelerate. It is the active cause at work which gives us hope of seeing the rise of a stronger race, a race which will possess in abundance those same qualities which are lacking to the degenerate vanishing species, strength of will, responsibility, ...

— The Cult of Incompetence • Emile Faguet

... in the dark alley, looking after the vanishing carriage with mingled admiration and amazement. Swift footsteps sounded near him; and the next moment a strong hand seized him and pulled him back into ...

— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... late Mrs. Henry Codman Potter, this hunter's domain has been transformed into beautiful "Cooper Grounds"; and here the red-man of bronze keeps ward and watch over memories that enshrine the genius of a noble soul whose records of this vanishing ...

— James Fenimore Cooper • Mary E. Phillips

... work goes on abstractly without a will of its own and a predestined process is watched by a soulless eye and served by a passionless grip. On the other hand, there survived in Pratteler something of the whimsical mood of that vanishing social type, the journeyman. He had highfaluting ideas and pompous movements, and his speech was bloated with superfluous pathos and personal conceit. His relation to life was a many-linked chain of demands. Neighbors, ...

— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various

... were passed out of it; the Briton having no use for such a launch, nor any place to stow it. I stood at the gangway, and looked with a melancholy eye at this last remnant of the Dawn that I ever beheld: a large eighty thousand dollars of my property vanishing from the earth, in the loss of that ship and ...

— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper

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