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Definition of "spaghetti" []

  • Pasta in long, often thick strands. (noun)
  • Electricity A slender tube of insulating material that covers bare wire. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "spaghetti" in a sentence
  • "In English, the term spaghetti evokes a particular shape of long noodle."
  • "This is what we call the spaghetti model charts, and each individual line here is a different computer model out putting a forecast for you, and see how they all line up."
  • "This is what we referred to as our spaghetti models."