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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Vanish  \Van"ish\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Vanished};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Vanishing}.]  [OE.  vanissen  OF  vanir  (in  comp.):  cf  OF 
  envanir  esvanir  esvanu["i]r,  F.  s'['e]vanouir;  fr  L.  vanus 
  empty,  vain;  cf  L.  vanescere  evanescere  to  vanish.  See 
  {Vain},  and  cf  {Evanescent},{-ish}.] 
  1.  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.  --Chaucer. 
 
  Go  vanish  into  air;  away!  --Shak. 
 
  The  champions  vanished  from  their  posts  with  the 
  speed  of  lightning.  --Sir  W. 
  Scott. 
 
  Gliding  from  the  twilight  past  to  vanish  among 
  realities.  --Hawthorne. 
 
  2.  To  be  annihilated  or  lost;  to  pass  away  ``All  these 
  delights  will  vanish.''  --Milton. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Vanishing  \Van"ish*ing\, 
  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. 
  --Math.  Dict. 
 
  {Vanishing  line}  (Persp.),  the  intersection  of  the  parallel 
  of  any  original  plane  and  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. 
  --Gwilt. 
 
  {Vanishing  stress}  (Phon.),  stress  of  voice  upon  the  closing 
  portion  of  a  syllable.  --Rush. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  vanishing 
  adj  :  quickly  going  away  and  passing  out  of  sight:  "all  I  saw  was 
  his  vanishing  back"  [syn:  {disappearing}] 
  n  1:  a  sudden  or  mysterious  disappearance 
  2:  suddenly  disappearing  from  sight




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