describes bundles of hair containing hairs of two or more different lengths.

Nonlinear, such as a tapered potentiometer.

Nonunifrom distribution of resistance per unit length throughout the element of a potentiometer.

adj :made gradually smaller towards one end Sources: The HBJ School Dictionary, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1977.

gradually narrowed toward a point; "a tall tapering spire"

becoming gradually narrower; "long tapering fingers"; "trousers with tapered legs"

Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.

Baguette: Similar to a baguette, the two longest sides of this rectangular step cut taper inward.

Design characteristic of a shaft whose sides angle (taper) in at the tip end.

Refers to any hole in which the upper diameter of the hole is larger than the bottom.