Spines versus Splines at Ridgewood...Paging Dean Paolucci

[Ronald Montesano]

I keep hearing them discuss spines at Ridgewood this week, at the Northern Trust, and I suspect that they are referencing splines. Dean Paolucci, my mentor, am I correct?

[Ken Moum]

In what context?


Since the picture below is the most common version of splines, I suspect they do me spine.

[Ronald Montesano]

Search "splines" in the GCA search bar. You'll get what I'm after.

[Ken Moum]

Search "splines" in the GCA search bar. You'll get what I'm after.

Every single one of those is a misuse of the word spline.


They probably should have used ridge, but at least one online dictionary includes that definition for spine.


https://www.thefreedictionary.com/spine


The Cambridge has this example of usage, " [/size]The Apennine mountains form the spine of Italy."[/color]
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[/size]I can't find a similar citation for spline.[/color]