thin adj

1 of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint" [ant: thick]

2 lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare [syn: lean] [ant: fat]

3 very narrow; "a thin line across the page" [syn: slender]

4 having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot" [syn: flimsy, slight, tenuous]

5 not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse" [syn: sparse]

6 relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous; "air is thin at high altitudes"; "a thin soup"; "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"; "thin oil" [ant: thick]

7 (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry" [ant: full]

8 lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile" adv : without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin" [syn: thinly] [ant: thickly]

1 lose thickness; become thin or thinner [ant: thicken]

2 make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution" [ant: thicken]

3 lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" [syn: dilute, thin out, reduce, cut]

4 take off weight [syn: reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, slim down] [ant: gain] [also: thinning, thinned, thinnest, thinner]thinning n : the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" [syn: cutting]thinning See thin

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thinning

1. present participle of thin

Thinning is a term used in agricultural sciences to mean the removal of some plants, or parts of plants, to make room for the growth of others.

Forestry

Thinning in forestry is the selective removal of trees, primarily undertaken to improve the growth rate or health of the remaining trees. This may be done to make the stand more profitable in an upcoming final felling. Overcrowded trees are under competitive stress from their neighbors. Thinning may be done to increase the resistance of the stand to environmental stress such as drought, insect infestation or extreme temperature. A thinning in which the trees removed have little or no economic value is called a pre-commercial thinning. Ecological Thinning is a variant of this being trialled for use in forest conservation in Australia.

In general, there are 4 major thinning types: High/Crown thinning (thinning from above) Low thinning (thinning from below) Selection thinning Mechanical thinning

Agriculture

In agriculture and gardening, thinning is the selective removal of flowers, fruits, shoots, and seedlings or young plants to allow adequate space for the remaining organs/plants to grow efficiently. In large-scale farming, techniques like precision seeding and transplanting can eliminate the need for thinning by starting plants at their optimum spacing. On a smaller scale, such as a home vegetable garden, thinning can be used as a way to make maximum use of space for certain crops. For example, beets, carrots, green onions and others can be planted densely, and then thinned to make room for continued growth of the plants left in the soil, and also as a harvest of baby vegetables (beet greens, baby carrots, baby onions).

Digital Geometry

In digital geometry, thinning is the transformation of a digital image into a simplified, but topologically equivalent image.

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