The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill.
An adroit manoeuvre.
In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over.
Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.
To play (a card) as a finesse.
To obtain something from someone through trickery or manipulation.
To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or stratagem.
To attempt to win a trick by finessing.
To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.
A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
A subsemigroup with the property that if any semigroup element outside of it is added to any one of its members, the result must lie outside of it.
A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.
A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).
A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection.
A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) 𝖍 of a given Lie algebra 𝖌 such that the Lie bracket [𝖌,𝖍] is a subset of 𝖍.
Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
Optimal; being the best possibility.
Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.