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单词 ogival
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ogivaladj.n.

Brit. /ˈəʊdʒɪvl/, /əʊˈdʒʌɪvl/, U.S. /ˈoʊdʒəv(ə)l/, /oʊˈdʒaɪv(ə)l/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: ogive n., -al suffix1.
Etymology: < ogive n. + -al suffix1, after French ogival (1823).
A. adj.
1.
a. Having the form or outline of an ogive or pointed arch.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [adjective] > types of arch
schemed1715
rampant1725
surmounted1728
ox-eyed1736
round-headed1751
full-centred1756
rounded1757
shark-toothed1794
straight1812
spandrelled1813
keyed1822
full centre1837
ogival1841
ogived1845
subarcuated1849
bonnet-headed1850
ogeed1851
uncusped1859
voussoired1875
subordered1898
1841 tr. J. Michelet Hist. France in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 49 150 In the ogival triangle, in the ogive, two lines are bent.
1868 Athenæum 25 July 112/3 They..show..how a flat-headed shot must penetrate an inclined plate better than a shot with an ogival head.
1871 G. Hartwig Subterranean World xxiii. 269 Its roof is supported by an ogival vault or an arch.
1875 Wonders Physical World I. ii. 88 Black lines forming parabolic or ogival curves.
1888 Times (Weekly ed.) 30 Mar. 8/3 [The ship has] ogival ends like the head of a Palliser projectile.
1900 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 May 1156 With regard to the head of the bullet, the..type which offers..least resistance is that known as ogival, which means that the curve is..part of the circle, the radius of which is equal to two diameters of the base of the bullet.
1948 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 14 155 Only those swords with parallel-sided blades, ogival tips and deep rectangular ricassos have been included.
1964 A. Nin Collages 45 The ogival shape of their eyelids gave them an air of compassion, almost as if they would weep with sympathy.
2001 C. Freeland But is it Art? ii. 37 Gothic architecture has a particular look: the pointed or ogival arch, ribbed vaults, rose windows, [etc.].
b. Characterized by ogives or pointed arches.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [adjective] > types of arch > characterized by
round-arched1606
scheme1703
round-arch1817
ogival1855
1855 F. B. Palliser tr. J. Labarte Handbk. Arts Middle Ages & Renaissance v. 235 The style of ogival architecture.
1882 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. xxv. 420 The peculiar ogival forms of Persian and Saracenic architecture.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Dec. 6/1 The rise and growth of the Ogival—or Gothic—style.
1927 Speculum 2 22 In either case, it was groups of hard-working masons that perfected the ogival method of building, and groups of parishioners that made possible the work.
1989 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Foucault's Pendulum xviii. 126 Even today, every house in the upper city still has a cellar with ogival vaults.
1999 J. S. Curl Dict. Archit. at Ogive Ogival architecture is..Pointed or Gothic architecture.
2. Aeronautics. Of an aircraft wing: having the shape of an ogee in plan view.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [adjective] > types of wing
flappinga1857
cambered1909
swept-back1914
slotted1921
crustacean1928
cranked1939
unswept1946
variable sweep1954
Gothic1959
ogival1962
1962 Flight Internat. 81 269/1 One of the two Fairey FD.2 research aircraft owned by the Ministry of Aviation is being converted..to flight-test an ogival wing.
1965 Times 11 Sept. 7/6 Instead of being an ordinary, straight-sided delta, the Concord wing is ogival. Each wing starts as a sharp point,..spreads outwards and then curves in again.
1976 Jane's Pocket Bk. Res. & Exper. Aircraft 19 Special design features: Slender ogival delta wings.
1994 Pop. Sci. (Electronic ed.) 1 Oct. Johnson's design team selected the A-12's curving double-delta, or ogival, wing design for the D-21.
B. n.
A head of a shot or other projectile shaped like an ogive. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shot collectively > of cannon > a ball, etc., from cannon > specific shape of
ogival1869
ogive1947
1869 Philos. Trans. 1868 (Royal Soc.) 158 424 It is probable that the initial angular velocity would be preserved nearly unimpaired throughout the observed range. This is manifested in the greater steadiness of the hollow ogivals.
1894 Times 2 Aug. 3/6 Its ogival and point had been fused..as had been the case with the first shot.
1895 Dict. National Biogr. at Palliser [He] overcame practical difficulties, such as the tendency of the shot to fly if cooled too quickly, and determined the best form of head for it, the ogival.

Compounds

ogival-cylindrical adj.
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1868 Rep. Munitions War 126 A solid steel shot..having either a cylindrical or ogival-cylindrical shape.
ogival-headed adj.
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1866 Sci. Amer. 27 Oct. 283/2 J. Norton writes to the editor of Saunders' News Letter, Dublin, Ireland, that he used an ogival-headed iron shot, in a trial at Woolwich Arsenal, more than thirty years ago, and the flat-headed steel shot at the same time.
1908 Proc. Royal Soc. 80 522 (heading) Angle of elevation found by experiment for ogival-headed projectiles in terms of the radius of the head.
1949 J. G. Evans Eng. Art 1307–1461 ii. 37 The west front has deep ogival-headed niches on either side of a great window filled with foliate tracery.
ogival-shaped adj.
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1949 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 8 233 A diagram of the rocket is shown in Fig. 1. The equipment space is within a thin ogival-shaped aluminium nose~cone.
1963 Current Anthropol. 4 85/3 The Palisades site of Alaska has other types than the side notched point in the Laurentian, including the ogival-shaped one which is always called a whale lance-head in the literature on Eskimo.
1988 Christie's (Amsterdam) Sale Catal. Sat. Sales 25 June 20/1 One small ogival-shaped plate, 16.5cm wide.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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