cusped
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A team of researchers found that the edges of spinning skirts experience accelerations “of about four times Earth gravity”, reporting that the skirts “carry cusped wave patterns which seem to defy gravity and common sense.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2019
When c = a or = ∞ the curve reduces to the cardioid or the two cusped epicycloid previously discussed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
The columns employed throughout are antique ones from other buildings, but the whole effect of the structure, which abounds with curiously cusped arches and coloured decoration, is described as most picturesque and fantastic.
From Architecture Classic and Early Christian by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith
The clerestory rises above, divided by marvelously slender shafts into six compartments and three cusped circles in the apex of the arch.
From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.
The window openings are, as a rule, cusped.
From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith
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