cusped
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A team of researchers found that the edges of spinning skirts experience accelerations “of about four times Earth gravity”, reporting that the skirts “carry cusped wave patterns which seem to defy gravity and common sense.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2019
The tail, for instance, which in most modern fruit-bats is rudimentary, with only three or four vertebrae, in the fossil has eight complete vertebrae; while the teeth of the 247 extinct form are distinctly cusped.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
The arches are cusped like the windows, but are stilted and segmental.
From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson
The inner side of the trefoil is cusped, crockets and finials enrich the outer moulding of the opening, while beyond the jambs are niches, now empty.
From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson
Reached by a picturesque stair on the south side, the three-centred arches each enclose two or three smaller round arches, with the224 spandrils merely pierced or sometimes cusped.
From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson
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