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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vanish \Van"ish\, verb (used without an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
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) 2.0 [wn]:
vanishing
adjective: quickly going away and passing out of sight; "all I saw was his vanishing back" [syn: {disappearing}]
noun
1: a sudden or mysterious disappearance
2: suddenly disappearing from sight
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "vanishing": blackout, blocking, dematerialization, departure, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, eclipse, elimination, erasure, evanescence, evanescent, evaporating, evaporation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, fleeting, flying, fugitive, going, melting, occultation, passing, transient, vanishing point, wipe
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