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In architecture, a camber arch is an arch whose intrados, though apparently straight, has a slightly concave curve upward.
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In architecture a cusp is a triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.
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In architecture an intrados is the interior curve of an arch. The term is especially applied to the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together.
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In architecture an oblique arch is an arch whose jambs are not at right angles with the face, and whose intrados is in consequence askew.
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In architecture the springing line of an arch (spring of an arch) is the horizontal line drawn through the junction of the vertical face of the impost with the curve of the intrados.
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In architecture, a stilted arch is an arch in which the springing line is some distance above the impost, the space between being occupied by a vertical member, moulded or ornamented, as a continuation of the archivolt, intrados, etc.
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In architecture, a straight arch is a form of arch in which the intrados is straight, but with its joints drawn radially, as in a common arch.
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