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1. Pediment
   Low-pitched gable over porticos, doors, windows.
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2. Pediment
   Triangular panels like gables at the two ends of a temple roof, usually filled with sculpture.
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3. pediment
   A triangular space above a window or entrance. Originally the triangular space was formed by the end of a gable roof and later was used decoratively
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4. Pediment
   a triangular piece that is located over a doorway, fireplace or the lintel of a temple; the pediment could contain a decorative frieze, engraving or painting.
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5. pediment
   [n] - a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof
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6. Pediment
   low-pitched gable over porticos, doors, windows etc.
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7. pediment
   triangular gabled end of a roof (usually used of temples)
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8. pediment
   a gable shape in classical architecture, often triangular, though sometimes with a curved top or 'broken' on one edge
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9. Pediment
   Triangular part crowning front of building
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10. pediment
    In architecture, the triangular structure crowning the portico of a classical building. The pediment was a distinctive feature of Greek temples. ...
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11. Pediment
    classical form of corniced gable or gablet used at openings as well as a termination to roof structures. Usually triangular, occasionally semi-circular, can be open ie when the sloping sides stop short of the apex, or broken, when the base, for whatever reason, is incomplete. The apex stone...
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12. Pediment
    A low pitched gable above doors, windows, etc.
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13. Pediment
    Usually, a triangular feature above the columns in a portico, or above a window or doorway. Sometimes the top of a pediment is curved.
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14. Pediment
    The triangular shape that usually sits on the top of columns on a temple or building`s front. Often filled with sculpture.
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15. Pediment
    A wide, low-pitched gable surmounting the façade of a building. It is formed at the end of a building by the sloping roof and the cornice. Also, a triangular decorative element placed above a window or entrance. Also see: broken pediment. Contrast with: tympanum.
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16. Pediment
    A triangular or sometime curved head to panelling – used in 18th century altar-pieces. See Broken Pediment.
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17. pediment
    The triangular or curved gable surmounting the façade of a Classical-style building which has been much adapted in furniture design, especially in cabinets, bookcases and longcase clocks of the 18thC
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18. Pediment
    Ped'i·ment noun [ Latin pes , pedis , a foot. See Foot .] (Architecture) Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoe...
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19. pediment
    noun a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof
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20. Pediment
    • (n.) Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.
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21. pediment
    in architecture, triangular gable forming the end of the roof slope over a portico (the area, with a roof supported by columns, leading to the ... [1 related articles]
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22. pediment
    in geology, any relatively flat surface of bedrock (exposed or veneered with alluvial soil or gravel) that occurs at the base of a mountain or as a ... [2 related articles]
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23. pediment
    pediment In geology, a broad, gently sloping, low-relief erosion surface, composed primarily of bare rock, that develops in an arid or semiarid region at the base of a receding mountain slope.
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24. Pediment
    In architecture a pediment is the triangular termination used in classical architecture at the ends of buildings, over porticos, etc, corresponding to a gable in middle age architecture. It is much less acute at the top than a gable. Most of the porticos on the fronts of Greek and Roman buildings su...
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25. Pediment
    A gradually sloping bedrock surface located at the base of fluvial-eroded mountain range. Found in arid locations and normally covered by fluvial deposits.
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