arris

/ar-is/US // ˈær ɪs //UK // (ˈærɪs) //

阿里斯,鸢尾花,虹膜,阿瑞斯

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Architecture.
- : a sharp ridge, as between adjoining channels of a Doric column.
- : the line, ridge, or hip formed by the meeting of two surfaces at an exterior angle.

A curved furrow, immediately adjoining its repetition, and separated from it only by an arris, as in the Doric column.
It differs from a bevel in that a bevel inclines all the way to the next arris, while a chamfer makes a new arris, Fig. 271.
Old 'Arris is either dead and buried, or gorn away, or somethin'.
She would come to the front of the stage and say confidentially to the audience, "Do you know Lizzie 'Arris?"
Even then the lower arris (corner) is likely to be splintered off.