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

The teeth are more sharply cusped, and the lower sectorial wants the inner tubercle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

The stage above has tall square-headed windows, with reticulated tracery in the heads of cusped circles or quatrefoils, and two lights below with central colonnette.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

The ajimez windows, the cusped arches, and the decorations of this doorway are fine examples of Almohade art.

From The Story of Seville by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

Above the gallery is a large rose-window in which twelve spokes radiate from a cusped circle in the middle to the circumference, where the lights so formed are further enriched by cusped semicircles.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum