tilting noun 3adjective 1forms 1 noun3 •The motion of something that tilts; a tilt. •A charging with (or as if with) a lance, as in jousting. •The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer. adjective1 •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. formstiltings