Look up: spandrel

1. Spandrel
   Area between top of a column or pier and the apex of the arch springing from it.
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2. spandrel
   The roughly triangular wall space between two adjacent arches.
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3. spandrel
   [n] - an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them
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4. spandrel
   the broadly triangular space between the shoulders of an arch and its rectanglular moulding above and at the sides
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5. spandrel
   a wall carried on the extrados of an arch,filling the space below the deck Category: Building industry
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6. Spandrel
   The panels of a wall located between vision areas of windows, which conceal structural columns, floors, and shear walls.
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7. Spandrel
   The area overlying the arch barrel under the road surface (or equivalent), occupied by fill material or voids, or occasionally hidden elements such as internal spandrel walls.
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8. Spandrel
   the triangular shape contained by the side of an arch, a horizontal line drawn through its crown, and a vertical line on the end of the span. (Illustration)
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9. Spandrel
   The triangular area between adjacent arches.
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10. Spandrel
    The roughly triangular space between arches, or between an arch, its abutment, and a built edge above. Related Words: Abutment; Arch
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11. Spandrel
    The area of wood or stone that lies above an arch or a vault.
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12. Spandrel
    In architecture, this is the roughly triangular space that is enclosed by the curves of adjacent arches and a horizontal member running between their apexes. It is also the name for the space enclosed by the curve of an arch and an enclosing right angle.
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13. Spandrel
    The space between an arch and its surround. In a roof, the space between a brace and a rafter
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14. spandrel
    The corner space between an arch or circle and a rectangle. Originally an architectural term for the space between one arch and the next in arcading, it is used in the context of carpet and textile patterns. On a clock dial, spandrels refer to the ornamentation in the four corner spaces between the chapter ring and the dial plate. See box above.
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15. Spandrel
    Span'drel noun [ From Span .] 1. (Architecture) The irregular triangular space between the curve of an arch and the inclosing right angle; or the space between the outer moldings of two contiguous arches and a horizontal line above th...
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16. spandrel
    spandril noun an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them
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17. Spandrel
    • (n.) A narrow mat or passe partout for a picture. • (n.) The irregular triangular space between the curve of an arch and the inclosing right angle; or the space between the outer moldings of two contiguous arches and a horizontal line above them, or another arch above and inclosing them.
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18. spandrel
    the roughly triangular area above and on either side of an arch, bounded by a line running horizontally through the apex of the arch, a line rising ...
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19. Spandrel
    In architecture a spandrel is the triangular spaces included between the arch of a doorway, etc, and a rectangle formed by the outer mouldings over it. The term is also applied to other similar spaces included between arches, etc, and straight-sided figures surrounding them. They are usually ornamen...
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20. SPANDREL
    The panels of a wall located between vision areas of windows which conceal structural columns, floors, and shear walls.
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21. Spandrel
    Triangular surface between the vault of a dome and the supporting elements. Also the triangular surface, with curved sides, between two adjacent arches and the horizontal moulding above.
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22. spandrel
    The corner space between an arch or circle and a rectangle. Originally an architectural term for the space between one arch and the next in arcading, it is used in the context of carpet and textile patterns. On a clock dial, spandrels refer to the ornamentation in the four corner spaces between the chapter ring and the dial plate. See box above.
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23. spandrel
    the almost triangular space between one side of the outer curve of an arch, a wall, and the ceiling or framework. Spandrel Wall: a wall built on the curve of an arch, filling in the spandrel.
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24. Spandrel
    A `spandrel` (less often spandril or splaundrel) is the space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure. Definition: There are four or five accepted and cognate meanings of spandrel in architectural and art history, mostly relating to the space between a ...
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25. Spandrel
    (biology) in the Basilica di San Marco, Venice, an architectural term adopted to describe phenotypic characteristics indirectly resulting from natural selection In evolutionary biology, a `Spandrel` is a phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other character, r...
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