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How to pronounce ogee in English?

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Synonyms cyma reversa
Type of cyma, cymatium

Examples of ogee

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The stone color is sagebrush and it will have a double-ogee edge, a really fancy edge.
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The sharp angle of the Cambridge MA ogee curve on the bottom of the sleeve is rounded off.
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The base was four octagonal piers with cusped ogee arches.
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On each corner of the tower there is an octagonal turret rising an extra floor, with lead ogee domes.
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The more intricate ogee edge costs extra.
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It is a three storey tower mill with an ogee cap.
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Pointed arches were still used throughout the period, but ogee and four-centred Tudor arches were also introduced.
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This square tower with an octagonal lantern and facetted ogee dome was designed by Christopher Wren and built 1681-82.
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The first thing you see are two long, strong lines of columnar hornbeams, centred on an ochre-coloured corner tower with an ogee roof.
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  • A molding that (in section) has the shape of an S with the convex part above and the concave part below
  • An ogee (pronounced or) is a curve, shaped somewhat like an S, consisting of two arcs that curve in opposite senses, so that the ends are parallel.
  • A stone molding with a reverse curved edge: concave above, convex below.
  • A design where one part is concave and the other is convex, giving an s-shape outline, normally used to describe the mouldings or the feet of pieces.
  • In computer graphics, a distortion of an image using an S-shaped curve as one baseline, giving an image a wavy look.
  • A decorative molding profile with a S shape.
  • An S-shaped curve, particularly of an arch
  • The shape of a pointed arch the sides of which are each formed of a double curve, one convex and the other concave.
  • An S shape that is made by making one cut to produce two identical pieces.