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Definition of Straight arch
1. Noun. An arch with mutually supporting voussoirs that has a straight horizontal extrados and intrados.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straight Arch
Literary usage of Straight arch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"straight arch. (Arch.) An arch of which the extrados is straight, but the joints
of which are laid concentrically, as in a common arch. ..."
2. Illustrations of Mechanics by Henry Moseley (1848)
"THE straight arch, OR PLATE BANDE. If stones be placed side by side, horizontally,
and supported at their extremities, as in the accom- fg. ..."
3. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"rectilíneo agudo, triangular arch — d regla, straight arch. — en retirada ч
parallel arch, arch in echelon, recessed arch — remontado, v. ..."
4. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1836)
"The following is the method adopted by bricklayers in cutting the straight arch.
The straight arch, so common in houses in London, is first drawn out the ..."
5. Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico by Sidney David Markman (1984)
"The intrados of the straight arch has been repaired, and now is no more than a
flat band of stucco recessed below the plane of the rusticated voussoir ..."
6. The Mechanics of Engineering by Augustus Jay Du Bois (1902)
"The straight arch or Lintel.—The straight arch is a beam fixed at the ends, io
compression and bunding. The beam '^'"•/.,. is composed of voussoirs and ..."
7. An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical by Joseph Gwilt (1842)
"Draw the perpendiculars op, gr, st, on which lay the heights of the joints of
the straight arch taken on the line of slope ; that is, lay 12, on op, ..."
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