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Definition of Cyma recta

Cyma recta
Cyma Cy"ma (s[imac]"m[.a]) n. [NL., fr. Gr. ky^ma. See Cyme] 1. (Arch.) A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form. 2. (Bot.) A cyme. See Cyme. Cyma recta, or Cyma, a cyma, hollow in its upper part and swelling below. Cyma reversa, or Ogee, a cyma swelling out on the upper part and hollow below.

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- Cyma: Moulding of double curvature, combining the convex ovolo and concave cavetto. When the concave part is uppermost, it is called a cyma recta but...
- moulding include cyma reversa and talon. The ogee curve is an analogue of a "cyma curve", the difference being that a cyma, or "cyma recta", has horizontal...
- cornice in the classical order, is made of the s-shaped cyma molding (either cyma recta or cyma reversa), combining a concave cavetto with a convex ovolo...
- moulding, usually a quarter of a circle in section. [p. 73] / cyma recta (Latin, cyma, wave). Important compound moulding, combining the ovolo and cavetto...
- these. **** cyma Uppermost molding, of the cornice in the classical order, and made of the s-shaped cyma molding (either cyma recta or cyma reversa), combining...
- forms, depending on which curve is uppermost: in the cyma recta the cavetto is on top, in the cyma reversa the ovolo. A cavetto alone was sometimes emplo****...
- adhisthana, the base has the two square members called Bhat followed by a cyma recta carving (lower part convex and upper part concave). It is followed by...
- structure on top of a building. Cyma A projecting moulding whose edge forms an S-curve. The two major types of cyma are the cyma recta, in which the upper curve...
- divided, from bottom to top, into the cyma reversa, the dentils, the ovolo, the modillions, the fascia, and the cyma recta. The modillions are ornate brackets...
- the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia. It is decorated in three bands with cyma recta and astragalus patterns and twelve female figures. It dates to the 2nd...