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  2. Cant (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The Chiesa del Purgatorio, Ragusa: the facade are angled (canted) back from the centre. County Hall, Aylesbury with canted recesses. A cant in architecture is an angled (oblique-angled) line or surface that cuts off a corner. [1] [2] Something with a cant is canted. Canted façades are a typical of, but not exclusive to, Baroque architecture.

  3. Listed buildings in Ganton - Wikipedia

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    There are two storeys and attics, and an H-shaped plan, and a lower service wing with one storey and an attic. The southeast front has five bays, a recessed centre flanked by two-storey canted bay window, and gabled dormers. The southwest front has three bays and contains a canted and a square two-storey bay window.

  4. Cant - Wikipedia

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    Cant (architecture), part of a facade; CANT (aviation) (Cantieri Aeronautici e Navali Triestini), an aircraft manufacturer; Cant (log), a log partially processed in a sawmill; Cant (road/rail), an angle of a road or track; Cant (shooting), referring to a gun being tilted around the longitudinal axis, rather than being horizontally levelled

  5. Bay window - Wikipedia

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    A canted oriel window in Lengerich, Germany. A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. It typically consists of a central windowpane, called a fixed sash, flanked by two or more smaller windows, known as casement or double-hung windows.

  6. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    In ecclesial architecture, it is also used of the area between the baluster of a Catholic church and the high altar (what is usually called the sanctuary or chancel). Peristyle A continuous porch of columns surrounding a courtyard or garden (see also Peristasis). In ecclesial architecture, the term cloister is used. Phiale

  7. Cantilever - Wikipedia

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    The challenge for their practical application lies in the square and cubic dependences of cantilever performance specifications on dimensions. These superlinear dependences mean that cantilevers are quite sensitive to variation in process parameters, particularly the thickness as this is generally difficult to accurately measure. [9]

  8. Bay (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    For example, Mulberry Fields, a Georgian style building in Maryland, United States, is described as "5 bay by 2 bay," meaning "5 windows at the front and 2 windows at the sides". A recess in a wall, such as a bay window. [2] A division of space such as an animal stall, sick bay, or bay platform. [2]

  9. Barrel vault - Wikipedia

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    Note the absence of clerestory windows, all of the light being provided by the Rose window at one end of the vault. The Cloisters , New York City A barrel vault , also known as a tunnel vault , wagon vault or wagonhead vault , is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed ...