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Definition of Skene arch
1. Noun. An arch whose height is less than half its width.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skene Arch
Literary usage of Skene arch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"... when it is seized by the proper apparatus and drawn through the die. Skep.
(Husbandry.) a. A farmer's basket for gathering corn or roots. Skene-arch. ..."
2. A Naval and Military Technical Dictionary of the French Language: In Two by Robert Burn (1870)
"... anse de panier, flat-arched fault, basket-handle arch ; — en are it arde,
skene-arch ; — ci 'arête, groined fault; —i d'arête, cross-vaulting ; — ! ..."
3. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1811)
"... is in reality of great importance. these, The apparent firmament is a skene
arch, which may be from the »ppv compared to an arc of a circle of about ..."
4. An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical by Joseph Gwilt (1842)
"SCHEME or skene arch. One which is a segment of a circle. SCHEUE. (Gr.)
The representation of any design or geometrical figure by lines so as to make it ..."
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