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

In the centre a doubly cusped circle is surrounded by twelve radiating openings, whose trefoiled heads abut against twelve other broad trefoils, which are rather curiously run into the mouldings of the containing circle.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

They are cusped at the top, and at the springing two smaller cusped arches are thrown across to a pinnacled shaft in the centre.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

The window openings are, as a rule, cusped.

From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)

No fragment of the period is preserved, in which the windows, be they few or many, a group of three or an arcade of thirty, have not the noble cusped arch of the fifth order.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John