tilting

1. To slope or incline (something); to slant.

   Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.

2. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
3. To be at an angle.
4. To point or thrust a weapon at.
5. To point or thrust (a weapon).
6. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

   to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile

7. To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
8. (of a machine) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.

verb

To cover with a tilt, or awning.

1. The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
2. The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
3. A charging with a lance, as in jousting.

adjective

Having the property that it is the quotient of a projective module by a projective submodule, having an ext functor with itself of 0, and there being a right module as the kernel of a surjective morphism between finite direct sums of its direct summands.