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Synonyms nose cone
Type of front

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Another common ogive for bullets is the elliptical ogive.
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An elliptical ogive is normally described in terms of the ratio of the length of the ogive to the diameter of the shank.
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Typically, the 2PL logistic and normal-ogive IRFs differ in probability by no more than 0.01 across the range of the function.
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The normal-ogive model derives from the assumption of normally distributed measurement error and is theoretically appealing on that basis.
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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.
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A graph of IRT scores against traditional scores shows an ogive shape implying that the IRT estimates separate individuals at the borders of the range more than in the middle.
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The semicircular arch was followed in Europe by the pointed Gothic arch or ogive whose centreline more closely followed the forces of compression and which was therefore stronger.
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  • Nose cone: front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere
  • An ogive (pronounced &thinsp) is the roundly tapered end of a two-dimensional or three-dimensional object.
  • An ogive is a geographic feature of certain types of glaciers. They are identified as light and dark bands of ridges and valleys found at the base of glacial icefalls. They are usually found on 'advancing' or 'neutral' glaciers.
  • Ogive is one of four pieces for piano, composed by Erik Satie in the late 1880s. They were published in 1889, and were the first compositions by Satie he didn't publish in his father's music publishing house.
  • The curve of a cumulative distribution function; A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault; The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket; A three-dimensional wave-bulge, characteristic of glaciers that have experienced extreme underlying topographic change
  • (Ogives) alternating bands of dirty and clean ice on surface of valley glacier below an ice fall, annual banding formed by summer and winter movement over ice fall, also known as Forbes bands.
  • (Ogives) are arc-shaped features occasionally found across the glacier surface below icefalls. They may be ridges and swales in the ice or bands of darker or lighter ice. ...
  • A shape defined by the intersection of two circles. It is not the same as a parabola (q.v.). Both ogives and parabolas produce low drag sub-sonic nose shapes. They can be told apart since a parabola always has a rounded nose while an ogive comes to a point.
  • Ogives are rhythmically repeated, light and dark bandings within a glacier or a swell-and-swale configuration on its surface, convexly curved up-glacier, that form below some icefalls. Source: Sharp (1988)