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ogive. Diagonal rib of a Gothic vault, or any arch made up of two arcs meeting at a point. Ogival architecture is therefore Pointed or Gothic architecture.

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture JAMES STEVENS CURL

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ogive Banded pattern on the surface of a glacier. Normally it is convex down-glacier due to relatively high velocities at the centre. The banding effect may be due to alternating bands of white ice (containing many air bubbles) and dark ice (few air bubbles), or to variations in longitudinal pressure.

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY

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ogive A banded pattern on the surface of a glacier, normally convex down-glacier due to relatively high velocities at the centre. The banding effect may be due to alternating bands of white ice (containing many air bubbles) and dark ice (few air bubbles), or to variations in longitudinal pressure.

A Dictionary of Ecology MICHAEL ALLABY

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ogive a pointed or Gothic arch; the term is recorded from late Middle English, and comes from French, of unknown origin (see also ogee).

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ELIZABETH KNOWLES

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ogive (archit.) diagonal rib of a vault. XVII. — F. ogive, earlier augive, orgive, of unkn. orig.
So ogival XIX.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD

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