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ogive

See also: Ogive

English edit

WOTD – 19 March 2007
 
A Gothic facade with ogival arches (city hall of Münster, Germany).

Etymology edit

From late Middle English ogif, egeve, egeove, from Old French ogive, œgive, augive. Doublet of ogee.

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ogive (plural ogives)

  1. (statistics) The curve of a cumulative distribution function.
  2. (architecture) A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault.
  3. (weaponry, ballistics) The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket.
    Coordinate term: bourrelet
    • 2016, Steven J. Zaloga, Bazooka vs Panzer: Battle of the Bulge 1944, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 32:
      However, Ordnance tests revealed that the existing metal ogive (nose cone) tended to telescope on impact, cushioning the impact shock, and resulting in the failure of the impact fuze. In addition, the ogive tended to shear off from the rest of the body at impact angles of 20 degrees or more, […]
    • 2019, Thomas Gersbeck, Practical Military Ordnance Identification, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 111:
      Nose: The forward end of a warhead. May have a fuze-well, be solid, or be defined by the shape of the ogive.
      Ogive: Is aft of the nose, and forward of the bourrelet. May house a fuze adapter with a shape consistent with the contour of the ogive.
  4. (geology) A three-dimensional wave-bulge, characteristic of glaciers that have experienced extreme underlying topographic change.

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French edit

FWOTD – 9 March 2024

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Etymology edit

From Vulgar Latin [Term?], from Latin augēre, as the ogive goes on increasing, and the arch it forms increases the strength of the vault. In Old French we find the phrase arc ogif, itself from Latin arcus augivus. The word was also written as augive in the 17th century.

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ogive f (plural ogives)

  1. (architecture) diagonal rib, ogive
  2. (military) nose cone, warhead (of missile)
    ogives nucléaires ― nuclear warheads
    • 2022 October 27, Thomas d’Istria, “Oleksii Reznikov, le ministre de la défense ukrainien, ne croit pas que Poutine utilisera l’arme nucléaire”, in Le Monde.fr‎[1]:
      Dans la journée, l’armée russe a procédé à un exercice annuel de dissuasion nucléaire avec des tests de missiles capables de transporter des ogives nucléaires.
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  • → Spanish: ojiva

Adjective edit

ogive

  1. feminine singular of ogif

References edit

  • 1868, A. Brachet, An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Crowned by the French Academy

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  • IPA(key): /oˈd͡ʒi.ve/
  • Rhymes: -ive
  • Hyphenation: o‧gì‧ve

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ogive f

  1. plural of ogiva

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