Definition of "cuneiform"

About midway across the larger log a cuneiform notch or cut about six inches deep was made.

1889, John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt, “New Fire Among the Iroquois”, in American Anthropologist, volume 2, page 319

The cuneiform tendon is always sharply defined when the hock is flexed by the action of the muscle.

1936, W. Frank Calderon, Animal Painting and Anatomy, page 297

The cuneiform leaf is not the characteristic heart-shaped early form (O. and P., p. 241).

1952, Aileen Fox, Roman Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum): Excavations in the War-damaged Areas, 1945-1947, page 69

There, too, it was originally the vulgar script in contrast with the official cuneiform script employed for all official documents, compacts, etc.

1911, Alvin Sylvester Zerbe, The Antiquity of Hebrew Writing and Literature, page 182

The text is inscribed on a clay tablet of a very unusual format. The only other known mathematical cuneiform text on a clay tablet of a similar format is also the only previously known Kassite (and therefore post-Old-Babylonian) mathematical cuneiform text.

2000, Jöran Friberg, A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts, page ix