a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin | physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together |
the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved | the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) |
the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord | the property of something that is great in magnitude |
a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications |
any sharply pointed projection | the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object |
| a relative amount |