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Apidose fin (gcide) | Fin \Fin\, n.[OE. finne, fin, AS. finn; akin to D. vin, G. &
    Dan. finne, Sw. fena, L. pinna, penna, a wing, feather. Cf.
    pen a feather.]
    1. (Zool.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane
       supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous
       ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the
       water.
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    Note: Fishes move through the water chiefly by means of the
          caudal fin or tail, the principal office of the other
          fins being to balance or direct the body, though they
          are also, to a certain extent, employed in producing
          motion.
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    2. (Zool.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in
       pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
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    3. A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or
       product which protrudes like a fin, as:
       (a) The hand. [Slang]
       (b) (Com.) A blade of whalebone. [Eng.] --McElrath.
       (c) (Mech.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the
           junction of the parts of a mold.
       (d) (Mech.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between
           the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
           --Raymond.
       (e) (Mech.) A feather; a spline.
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    4. A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
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    5. (A["e]ronautics) A fixed stabilizing surface, usually
       vertical, similar in purpose to a bilge keel on a ship.
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    Apidose fin. (Zool.) See under Adipose, a.
 
    Fin ray (Anat.), one of the hornlike, cartilaginous, or
       bony, dermal rods which form the skeleton of the fins of
       fishes.
 
    Fin whale (Zool.), a finback.
 
    Paired fins (Zool.), the pectoral and ventral fins,
       corresponding to the fore and hind legs of the higher
       animals.
 
    Unpaired fins, or Median fins (Zool.), the dorsal,
       caudal, and anal fins.
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