Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of curving or the condition of being curved.
- noun The use of arches or vaults in building.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of bending; incurvation; the state of being bent; curvedness; crookedness.
- noun 2. A method of propagating plants by bending branches to the ground and covering portions of them with earth; layering (which see).
- noun 3. The employment of arches in architectural work; arched work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.
- noun (Hort.) A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of bending or curving; the state of being bent;
crookedness . - noun botany A method of
propagating trees by bending branches to the ground and covering the smallshoots with earth;layering .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For these latter edifices the old manor-houses, with their many mullioned windows and Tudor arcuation, formed the basis for design, and machicoli, turrets, and open timber roofs became the fashion for country-houses; but the city dwellings were erected in a style that was a compromise between the
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Divided by sub-arcuation into three lights, surmounted by circles of quatrefoil tracery in the spandrels of the arches, and supported by composite shafts, with moulded bases and foliated capitals, this elegant window had been allowed to drop into a ruin.
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If the elliptical arch be equally strong with the semicircular; that is, if an arch, by approaching to a straight line, loses none of its stability, it will follow, that all arcuation is useless, and that the bridge may at last, without any inconvenience, consist of stone laid in straight lines from pillar to pillar.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746
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n. - person who loves or collects teddy bears. adj. - bow-shaped. arcuation, n.
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