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  2. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    (Greek: γεῖσον — often interchangeable with cornice) The part of the entablature that projects outward from the top of the frieze in the Doric order and from the top of the frieze course of the Ionic and Corinthian orders; it forms the outer edge of the roof on the sides of a structure with a sloped roof. Gorgerin

  3. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    Cross hipped: The result of joining two or more hip roof sections together, forming a T or L shape for the simplest forms, or any number of more complex shapes. Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings.

  4. Domestic roof construction - Wikipedia

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    Domestic roof construction is the framing and roof covering which is found on most detached houses in cold and temperate climates. [1] Such roofs are built with mostly timber , take a number of different shapes , and are covered with a variety of materials .

  5. Roof - Wikipedia

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    A roof (pl.: roofs or rooves) is the top covering of a building, including all materials and constructions necessary to support it on the walls of the building or on uprights, providing protection against rain, snow, sunlight, extremes of temperature, and wind. [1]

  6. Engineering drawing - Wikipedia

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    ISO Lettering templates, designed for use with technical pens and pencils, and to suit ISO paper sizes, produce lettering characters to an international standard. The stroke thickness is related to the character height (for example, 2.5 mm high characters would have a stroke thickness - pen nib size - of 0.25 mm, 3.5 would use a 0.35 mm pen and ...

  7. File:Murray OED vocabulary types diagram.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: A diagram of the different kinds of vocabulary of the English language and their relative frequency. Redrawn by User:DavidPKendal after the diagram by James Murray, the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

  8. Cathedral floorplan - Wikipedia

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    Amiens Cathedral floorplan: massive piers support the west end towers; transepts are abbreviated; seven radiating chapels form the chevet reached from the ambulatory. In Western ecclesiastical architecture, a cathedral diagram is a floor plan showing the sections of walls and piers, giving an idea of the profiles of their columns and ribbing.

  9. File:Triglot Vocabulary.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Short title: TriglotVocabulary.pdf; Author Image title: x-repair: Date and time of digitizing: 18:34, 20 November 2014: File change date and time: 18:34, 20 November 2014