Ogive

Word OGIVE
Character 5
Hyphenation o give
Pronunciations /ˈəʊdʒaɪv/

Definitions and meanings of "Ogive"

What do we mean by ogive?

A distribution curve in which the frequencies are cumulative. noun

A frequency distribution. noun

A diagonal rib of a Gothic vault. noun

A pointed arch. noun

Ogival.

In architecture: A pointed arch; also, the diagonal rib of a vault of the type normal in the French architecture of the thirteenth century. See arc ogive, under arc. noun

A window of the Pointed style. noun

The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally. noun

The curve of a cumulative distribution function. noun

A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault. noun

The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket. noun

A three-dimensional wave-bulge, characteristic of glaciers that have experienced extreme underlying topographic change. noun

Front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere noun

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.

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The word "ogive" in example sentences

Free bore is just that, it is the area ahead of the bullet ogive in a rifle barrel to which there is no rifling, once the cartridge is fired the bullet travels freely in the barrel until the bullets ogive contacts the rifling, hence free bore. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, I failed to mention that I have tweaked my C.O.A.L. a bit, putting the ogive of my Sierra's closer to the rifling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I personally thought it should have been the concept chosen over Lockheed's double-ogive concept which was trouble just waiting to happen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The char patterns just aft of the nose cone on the fwd LO2 tank ogive are caused by aero-heating. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, Most of the air flow across the rifling grooves is inconsequential since most of the bearing surface is in the boundary layer created behind the ogive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One with secant ogive and minimal meplat is best at extreme distances such as 1000 yards. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All E.T. structures had posive margins during ascent, without foam, except for an area on the oxygen tank ogive. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I was woolgathering industriously in my study: not the bleak corner of a windowless basement room, fenced off by cheap shelving, where I do most of my actual work, but the Platonic study in my mind, with the cherry-panelled walls and tall ogive windows, wingback chairs before the roaring fireplace, and fine old books in rank upon rank clear up to the fifteen-foot ceiling. ❋ Superversive (2006)

The InterBond's lead core is bonded to a thick, tough jacket that bulges inward about where the ogive (see sidebar, right, for this and other terms) begins. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Classic ogive, and if they know what they're doing followed up by further waves and products. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)

The groundside scene was of graceful columns and ogive windows open on a garden. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1998)

The central point of the ogive was not directly above me, though; my bed had been placed a few feet off-center. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)

She was looking out an open ogive window, into the salt breeze and onward to surf on the reefs beyond the bay. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1985)

They will capture him and lose him, wound him, take him for killed in action, and he will go on, headlong, a raving snowman over the winter marshes-there'll be no wind adjustment, no field-change to the bottleneck fairing or deadly ogive of their Parabellum rounds that can ever bring him down. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)

That light also slanted through ogive windows in a curving wall, to glow off the grain of the wooden floor. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1978)

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