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sexpartite

/seks-pahr-tahyt/US // sɛksˈpɑr taɪt //UK // (sɛksˈpɑːtaɪt) //

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : divided into or consisting of six parts.
    • : Architecture. divided into six compartments by two ogives and three transverse arches, one of which crosses the ogives at the point at which they cross each other.

Examples

  • The choir has one bay of quadripartite and one of sexpartite vaulting, and an apse.

  • Noyon Cathedral had from its start planned for a sexpartite vault by building its ground supports of alternating strength.

  • The profiles were alike in both cathedrals, and so were the sexpartite vaulting and the embryo transept.

  • Of that time, too (c. 1180), is the double bay, surmounted by a sexpartite vault which precedes the apse.

  • Notre Dame of Paris used the sexpartite system which calls for alternating ground supports.