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In each bay of the Triforium there are three arches with curvilinear tracery.
BELL'S CATHEDRALS: THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CARLISLEC. KING ELEYThere are the degrees of direction of line, curvilinear or angular.
LINE AND FORM (1900)WALTER CRANEThe same principle is true of designs upon the curvilinear plan.
LINE AND FORM (1900)WALTER CRANEThe rifflers of sculptors and a few other files are curvilinear in their central line.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 10, SLICE 3VARIOUSA wing added in the seventeenth century, with quaint curvilinear gable, projects into the garden behind.
BELL'S CATHEDRALS: THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF RIPONCECIL WALTER CHARLES HALLETTThe curvilinear groove h h, sunk in each face or side of the carriage, has the depth shown in the section at h.
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINESANDREW UREIt affords an example, on a magnificent scale, of the curvilinear motion, which you taught us in mechanics.
CONVERSATIONS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, IN WHICH THE ELEMENTS OF THAT SCIENCE ARE FAMILIARLY EXPLAINEDJANE HALDIMAND MARCET AND THOMAS P. JONESThese experiments led to the study of the curvilinear motions of a weight suspended by a cord; in other words, of the pendulum.
A HISTORY OF SCIENCE, VOLUME 2(OF 5)HENRY SMITH WILLIAMSAs they are curvilinear forms, their design is similar in many ways to clay forms of similar proportions and uses.
INDUSTRIAL ARTS DESIGNWILLIAM H. VARNUMSuch variables as u, v are then described as “curvilinear coordinates” of the point.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 14, SLICE 5VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO CURVILINEAR
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