Glossary

An architectural style based on the work of Robert Adam (1728 1792) and his brothers, predominant in England in the […]

1. A device for matching and properly connecting items, tubing, or devices (especially electric) which are of different size, operating

A monastery or convent; particularly the church thereof.

In the plane Cartesian coordinate system, the horizontal coordinate of a point on a plane; the x-coordinate, obtained by measuring the distance from

A masonry mass (or the like) which receives the thrust of an arch, vault, or strut.

A common plant of the Mediterranean, whose leaves, stylized, form the characteristic decoration of capitals of Corinthian and Composite orders. In scroll form

A door, usually small, which is provided through a finished construction, as into a duct, through a ceiling, behind a wall, in

An ornamental treatment, used over an arch, a door, or a window, composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle; often