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Ogive

noun
1.
Front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere.  Synonym: nose cone.





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... of serpents that seemed striving to devour them, an obscure cosmogonie symbol whereof the meaning was no longer intelligible, and had descended into the tomb with the hierophants of preceding ages. The gates were neither of a square nor rounded form. They described a sort of ogive much resembling the mitre of the Magi, and by their fantastic character gave still more intensity to ...
— King Candaules • Theophile Gautier


Words linked to "Ogive" :   heat shield, front


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