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  2. Splayed opening - Wikipedia

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    Splayed arch tops the splayed window opening. In architecture, a splayed opening is a wall opening that is narrower on one side of the wall and wider on another. When used for a splayed window, it allows more light to enter the room. In fortifications, a splayed opening is used to broaden the arc of fire (cf. embrasure, loophole). [1]

  3. Hemispherical combustion chamber - Wikipedia

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    A hemispherical head ("hemi-head") gives an efficient combustion chamber with minimal heat loss to the head, and allows for two large valves.However, a hemi-head usually allows no more than two valves per cylinder due to the difficulty in arranging the valve gear for four valves at diverging angles, and these large valves are necessarily heavier than those in a multi-valve engine of similar ...

  4. Chrysler Hemi-6 Engine - Wikipedia

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    The Hemi-6 valves are angled apart (splayed) 18 degrees (included angle) along the crankshaft axis, and the intake valves are as large as 1.96 in (50 mm). The 6 intake and 6 exhaust valves open slightly towards each other and away from the cylinder wall, which results in less "shrouding" of the valves and greater airflow potential.

  5. Splayed arch - Wikipedia

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    In architecture, a splayed arch (also sluing arch [1]) is an arch where the springings are not parallel ("splayed"), causing an opening on the exterior side of an arch to be different (usually wider) than the interior one. The intrados of a splayed arch is not generally cylindrical as it is for typical arch, but has a conical shape. [2] [3]

  6. Wing wall - Wikipedia

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    Splayed wing walls: used for bridges across rivers. They provide smooth entry and exit to the water. The splay is usually 45°. Their top width is 0.5 m, face batter 1 in 12 and back batter 1 in 6, weep holes are provided.. Return wing walls: used where banks are high and hard or firm.

  7. 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.

  8. Coping (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    A splayed or wedge coping is one that slopes in a single direction; a saddle coping slopes to either side of a central high point. [ 2 ] Coping may be made of stone (capstone), brick , clay or terracotta , concrete or cast stone , tile , slate , wood, thatch , or various metals, including aluminum , copper , stainless steel , steel , and zinc ...

  9. Dutch angle - Wikipedia

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    Person passed out on sidewalk – New York City, 2008 – shot using Dutch angle. In filmmaking and photography, the Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, vortex plane, or oblique angle, is a type of camera shot that involves setting the camera at an angle so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame, or so that the horizon line of the ...