contrast vs dovetail

contrast

verb
  • To form a contrast. 

  • To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between. 

noun
  • Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else. 

  • A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed. 

  • Antithesis. 

  • is a substance used to increase the contrast of structures or fluids within the body in medical imaging. 

  • The degree of this difference. 

  • A difference between two objects, people or concepts. 

dovetail

verb
  • To combine or fit (things) together well. 

  • Of several things: to combine or fit together well. 

  • To unite (components) with a dovetail (noun sense 2.1) or similar joint. 

  • To interweave (a number of algorithms or subprograms) so that they can be run more or less simultaneously. 

noun
  • In full dovetail joint: a type of joint where adjoining components are fastened by multiple tenons cut into wedge shapes resembling a dove's tail, which interlock with mortises having corresponding shapes. 

  • The tail of a dove (family Columbidae); also, something having the shape of a dove's tail. 

  • A tenon cut into a wedge shape resembling a dove's tail so that it interlocks with a mortise having a corresponding shape in a dovetail joint. 

  • A line resembling a dovetail joint (sense 2.1). 

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