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ogee

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English

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two ogee curve (1) examples with their extended S-shape (cyma recta, cyma reversa)

Etymology

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From Middle English *ogeve, egeve, egeove, from Old French œgive, ogive, augive, from Late Latin augiva, of uncertain origin; compare Late Latin ogis (“a support, prop”), Latin augeō (“to increase, strengthen”), Spanish auge (“highest point of power or fortune, apogee”). Doublet of ogive.

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Noun

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ogee (plural ogees)

  1. (architecture) A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape.
    Coordinate terms: cymatium, cyma
    • 1905, Charles Herbert Moore, “Chapter 13”, in Character of Renaissance Architecture:
      At the centre of this façade of one story is a porch of two stories with a tall attic and a gable of ogee outline flanked by finials.
    • 1910, Francis Bond, “Chapter 3”, in Wood Carvings in English Churches:
      There is no pronounced ogee arch anywhere, though there is a suspicion of one where the open trefoils of the gables rest upon the containing arches. The tracery too of all the circles is geometrical, i.e., composed of simple curves; there is no flowing or ogee tracery with compound curves.
    • 1959 June, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Cardeans" of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 309:
      In front of the leading splasher the frame was given what is called an ogee bend outwards, [...].
  2. (architecture) A pointed arch made from two ogees.
    Synonym: ogive
  3. (mathematics) An inflection point.
  4. (aesthetic facial surgery) The malar or cheekbone prominence transitioning into the mid-cheek hollow.
  5. (distillation) The bubble-shaped chamber of a pot still that connects the swan neck to the pot and allows distillate to expand, condense, and fall back into the pot.

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