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Definition of Arching
1. Adjective. Forming or resembling an arch. "An arched ceiling"
Category relationships: Architecture
Similar to: Curved, Curving
Derivative terms: Arc
Definition of Arching
1. n. The arched part of a structure.
Definition of Arching
1. Verb. (present participle of arch) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Arching
1. a series of arches [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arching
Literary usage of Arching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gymnastic Teaching by William Skarstrom (1914)
"Neck grasp stride st. backw. arching alternating with forw. ... Alt. foot placing
forw. with hands on neck, and backward arching. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"In this case, again, and in the course of development, the simple arching beam
has expanded into a sounding-board, occasionally assuming somewhat the ..."
3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"I therefore first made a serai- circular incision, beginning at the right
sterno-cleido-mastoid insertion into the clavicle, arching up into the neck, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The cranium seen from above is an elongated oval in guished from that of other
anthropoid apes by its large size and its higher arching in the coronal ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1865)
"9 iron wire, passing over the anterior surfaces of both limbs from the toes
upwards, arching over the pubes clear of the anterior spinous processes, ..."
6. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"arching of the edges of the testa terminates posteriorly by a fold, and a projection
jutting out in the manner of an angle. ..."
7. The Lighting of School-rooms: A Manual for School Boards, Architects by Stuart Henry Rowe (1904)
"... arching or rounded corners to cut that light off. The brickwork may be decorated
or sunk in above the windows to complete an arch and the group of ..."
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