ogive
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- arch
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- Bonne-Esperance Salle capitulaire.JPG
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- Gothic arches
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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An ogive ( ) is the roundly tapered end of a two- or three-dimensional object. Ogive curves and surfaces are used in engineering, architecture, woodworking, and ballistics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ogive” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.