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ogive

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ogive [′ō‚jīv]
(architecture)
An arch or rib placed diagonally across a Gothic vault.
A pointed arch.
(geology)
One of a periodically repeated series of dark, curved structures occurring down a glacier that resemble a pointed arch.
(ordnance)
The curved or tapered front of a projectile.

ogive
1. In general, a pointed arch.
2. Strictly, the diagonal rib in Gothic vaults.


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Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.
 
 
 
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