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
Its columns support round arches that are surmounted in piers by crocketed gables, pierced and cusped.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe
It has in front four square stone piers bearing large horseshoe brick arches, and these arches are moulded and cusped exactly like those at Alvito.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
No fragment of the period is preserved, in which the windows, be they few or many, a group of three or an arcade of thirty, have not the noble cusped arch of the fifth order.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John
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