cusped

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A team of researchers found that the edges of spinning skirts experience accelerations “of about four times Earth gravity”, reporting that the skirts “carry cusped wave patterns which seem to defy gravity and common sense.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2019

They are cusped at the top, and at the springing two smaller cusped arches are thrown across to a pinnacled shaft in the centre.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

At about the level of the pendant the open space is crossed by a cusped segmental arch supporting elaborate flowing tracery.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

Above the gallery is a large rose-window in which twelve spokes radiate from a cusped circle in the middle to the circumference, where the lights so formed are further enriched by cusped semicircles.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

The window openings are, as a rule, cusped.

From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)