ogive

ogive

See also: Ogive

English

WOTD – 19 March 2007

A Gothic facade with ogival arches (city hall of Münster, Germany).

Etymology

From late Middle English ogif, egeve, egeove, from Old French ogive, œgive, augive. Doublet of ogee.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊɡaɪv/, /ˈəʊd͡ʒaɪv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊɡaɪv/, /ˈoʊd͡ʒaɪv/

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Noun

ogive (plural ogives)

1. (statistics) The curve of a cumulative distribution function.
2. (architecture) A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault.
3. (weaponry, ballistics) The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket.

   Coordinate term: bourrelet

   • 2016, Steven J. Zaloga, Bazooka vs Panzer: Battle of the Bulge 1944, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 32:

     However, Ordnance tests revealed that the existing metal ogive (nose cone) tended to telescope on impact, cushioning the impact shock, and resulting in the failure of the impact fuze. In addition, the ogive tended to shear off from the rest of the body at impact angles of 20 degrees or more, […]

   • 2019, Thomas Gersbeck, Practical Military Ordnance Identification, second edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 111:

     Nose: The forward end of a warhead. May have a fuze-well, be solid, or be defined by the shape of the ogive.
     Ogive: Is aft of the nose, and forward of the bourrelet. May house a fuze adapter with a shape consistent with the contour of the ogive.

4. (geology) A three-dimensional wave-bulge, characteristic of glaciers that have experienced extreme underlying topographic change.

Related terms

• ogee
• ogival

Translations

curve of a cumulative function

Finnish: summakäyrä French: ogive (fr) f German: Ogive Occitan: ogiva (oc) f Russian: оги́ва (ru) f (ogíva) Tagalog: hatimbantok

Gothic pointed arch

Catalan: arc apuntat m, ogiva (ca) f Czech: gotický oblouk m Finnish: suippokaari (fi) French: ogive (fr) German: Spitzbogen m, Ogive f Italian: arco a sesto acuto m, ogiva (it) f, arco gotico m Occitan: ogiva (oc) f Portuguese: ogiva (pt) f Russian: стре́льчатый (ru) (strélʹčatyj) свод (ru) m (svod) Swedish: spetsbåge (sv) c Ukrainian: стрілча́ста арка f (strilčásta arka)

nose of a bullet, missle, or rocket

Finnish: suippokärki French: ogive (fr) German: Ogive Italian: ogiva (it) f Occitan: ogiva (oc) f Portuguese: ogiva (pt) f Russian: ожива́ло (ru) n (oživálo) Spanish: ojiva f

wave-bulges of glaciers

Further reading

• ogive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pointed arch (architecture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• vogie

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French

Alternative forms

• augive (obsolete)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin [Term?], from Latin augēre, as the ogive goes on increasing, and the arch it forms increases the strength of the vault. In Old French we find the phrase arc ogif, itself from Latin arcus augivus. The word was also written as augive in the 17th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʒiv/

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Noun

ogive f (plural ogives)

1. (architecture) diagonal rib, ogive
2. (military) nose cone, warhead (of missile)

   ogives nucléaires ― nuclear warheads

   • 2022 October 27, Thomas d’Istria, “Oleksii Reznikov, le ministre de la défense ukrainien, ne croit pas que Poutine utilisera l’arme nucléaire”, in Le Monde.fr‎:

     Dans la journée, l’armée russe a procédé à un exercice annuel de dissuasion nucléaire avec des tests de missiles capables de transporter des ogives nucléaires.

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Derived terms

• croisée d'ogives
• voûte d'ogives

Descendants

• → Spanish: ojiva

Adjective

ogive

1. feminine singular of ogif

References

• 1868, A. Brachet, An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Crowned by the French Academy

Further reading

• “ogive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈd͡ʒi.ve/
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: o‧gì‧ve

Noun

ogive f

1. plural of ogiva

Anagrams

• Giove