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squinches's Usage Examples:

the pendentive's development, builders used the device of corbelling or squinches in the corners of a room.

of both Byzantine and Persian architecture, using both pendentives and squinches.

used to transition from the corners of the room to the dome, rather than squinches.

At each corner, the mausoleum's builders employed squinches, an architectural solution to the problem of supporting the circular-plan.

different historical eras can be distinguished by their transition tiers: the squinches, spandrels, or brackets that transition from the supporting structures.

A dome can rest directly upon a rotunda wall, a drum, or a system of squinches or pendentives used to accommodate the transition in shape from a rectangular.

rows of squinches, an architectural achievement of its time.

The lower row is made of four larger squinches, the two upper of smaller squinches, and finally.

sits a brick one-bay dome carried on four brick squinches.

A large brick dome supported by brick squinches is also situated atop the mausoleum of Kujuk.

typically applied to the undersides of domes, pendentives, cornices, squinches, arches and vaults and is often seen in the mihrab of a mosque.

Dennett argues that alternatives to pendentives, such as corbels or squinches, would have served equally well from an architectural standpoint, but.

twelve) or towers in the corners and the centre, ornamented with beautiful squinches in different chambers and walls (pictures in the gallery).

walls and an octagon-shaped interior, which together minimize the size of squinches required.

The transition to the dome is achieved with four squinches over an octagonal drum pierced with four arched windows.

The four squinches in the square bay transform it into an octagon.

The wall surfaces fan out at the top above the squinches and join together.

The camekan's domes have grooved squinches, the warm room's domes have muqarnas squinches, and the hot room's domes have pendentives with.

chamber is achieved through a series of superimposed niches acting as squinches and giving the vague impression of stalactite-like forms.

It was built on an octagonal plan on squinches and has on its exterior ajimezate windows with Plateresque decorations.

transition from the square bay to the circle of the dome was effected through squinches.

rests on an octagonal base, supported by four large and eight smaller squinches and containing two windows, to the east and to the west.

squinches's Meaning':

a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire

Synonyms:

arch; trumpet arch;

Antonyms:

rise; recede; ascend;