Crossword clues for ogive
ogive
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ogive \O"give\, n. [F. ogive, OF. augive a pointed arch, LL. augiva a double arch of two at right angles.] (Arch.) The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context statistics English) The curve of a cumulative distribution function. 2 (context architecture English) A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault. 3 (context ballistics English) The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket. 4 (context geology English) A three-dimensional wave-bulge, characteristic of glaciers that have experienced extreme underlying topographic change.
WordNet
n. front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere [syn: nose cone]
Wikipedia
An ogive is the roundly tapered end of a two-dimensional or three-dimensional object.
Villard de Honnecourt, a 13th-century itinerant master-builder from the Picardy in the north of France, was the first writer to use the word ogive. The OED considers the French term's origin obscure; it might come from the Late Latin obviata, the feminine perfect passive participle of obviare, meaning the one who has met or encountered the other.
An ogive is a pointed arch.
Ogive may also refer to:
- Ogives, a set of four piano pieces composed by Erik Satie
- Ogive (glacier), a banding feature of a glacier
- Eadgifu of Wessex, the daughter of Edward the Elder
- A missile's warhead
- In statistics, an ogive is a graph showing the curve of a cumulative distribution function
Usage examples of "ogive".
Above them reared a wall surmounted by slim towers, ivory-hued, playfully filigreed, a high ogive gate at its middle that shimmered like mother-of-pearl.
Slender pillars, ogive arches and windows, saints in their niches, rose beneath twin towers.
The church stretched before him in the form of an Egyptian cross over three hundred feet long, its three pointed ogive arches and rows of majestic pillars gradually decreasing in distance from each other as they approached the main altar behind which the Ghirlandaio studio had been working for three years.
This road was lined on both verges with immense chestnut trees, leafless now, so their limbs meeting above the road resembled the ogive arches and groins of some kind of churchly edifice.
Moorish, ogive windows full of night, gilt arabesque friezes dimly picked out of shadow by the flames in a single candelabrum.
Marthe and Puygarreau, we took the Rue du Chat Rouge, and finally came before the ogive arch, which formed the entrance to the Rue de Penthievre, where the Jews were compelled to live and transact their business.
Inside, a square gallery forms a promenade opening into the court through arcades trellised with ogive windows.
And the flight of the nave was stronger marked than ever, with the heavy curved pillars below, supporting the round arches, while above, the numbers of little columns grew smaller and smaller as they burst forth among the broken arches of the ogives, like an inexpressible declaration of faith and love which seemed to come from the lights.
You enter and are stunned by a conspiracy in which the sublime universe of heavenly ogives and the chthonian world of gas guzzlers are juxtaposed.
The church seemed to him very different both from the dome at La Griva and from the naves, geometrically arranged in ogives and cross vaults, of the churches at Casale.