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  2. Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names - Wikipedia

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    Many shapes have metaphorical names, i.e., their names are metaphors: these shapes are named after a most common object that has it. For example, "U-shape" is a shape that resembles the letter U , a bell-shaped curve has the shape of the vertical cross section of a bell , etc.

  3. U-shaped courtyard house in Vieux-la-Romaine - Wikipedia

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    The house has an approximate total area of 197 m², [D 1] comprising 112 m² of living space and 85 m² of a service courtyard arranged in a U-shaped configuration around a storage area. [C 1] The house's layout is not geometrically perfect; however, the spaces are distributed evenly between two parts. [C 1] The part of the house dedicated to ...

  4. Porcelain services of the Rococo period - Wikipedia

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    Wine coolers and ice cream coolers were frequently cylinder -shaped dishes that tapered somewhat inward at their bases. [9] A tin liner held the wine bottle or ice cream, and a cavity between the porcelain and the liner allowed for a mixture of salt and ice to chill the contents inside the liner. Ice cream coolers typically had porcelain lids ...

  5. Cylinder - Wikipedia

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    If the elements of the cylinder are perpendicular to the planes containing the bases, the cylinder is a right cylinder, otherwise it is called an oblique cylinder. If the bases are disks (regions whose boundary is a circle) the cylinder is called a circular cylinder. In some elementary treatments, a cylinder always means a circular cylinder. [2]

  6. Ancient Near Eastern seals and sealing practices - Wikipedia

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    Cylinder seals: daily life, production processes (weaving), pig-tailed figures, schematic designs (files of animals, e.g. spiders and scorpions, eye pattern, fish pattern) Example: Colored limestones and dark, hard stones preferred; steatite, serpentine, schist; extensive use of the drill: Container sealings; sealings on tablets, bullae

  7. Zoetrope - Wikipedia

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    The huge cylinder was turned around by a gas engine and was operative at least from late 1867 to spring 1868. [45] The BRAVIA-drome at Venaria, in Northern Italy. In 2008, Artem Limited, a UK visual effects house, built a 10-meter wide, 10-metric ton zoetrope for Sony, called the BRAVIA-drome, to promote Sony's motion interpolation technology

  8. 30 Christmas Traditions From Around the World - AOL

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    Here’s a look at some of the foods, stories, and customs that shape how Christmas is observed around the world. Australia There’s no such thing as a “white Christmas” in the land down under.

  9. Centrifugal casting (industrial) - Wikipedia

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    Centrifugal casting is also used to manufacture disk and cylinder shaped objects such as railway carriage wheels or machine fittings where grain, flow, and balance are important to the durability and utility of the finished product. Noncircular shapes may also be cast providing the shape is relatively constant in radius.