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pediments

pediments is the plural of pediment.

Meaning of pediment

Noun

pediment (plural pediments)

  1. A classical architectural element consisting of a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure (entablature) which lies immediately upon the columns; fronton.
    • Passing the Congregation Shearith Israel on Central Park West (a white whale of a building with a triangular pediment supported by four count ’em four massive Corinthian columns), Professor Solanka scurrying through the downpour remembered the newly bat-mitzvahed thirteen-year-old girl he’d...2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5
  2. A very gently sloping (0.5°-7°) inclined bedrock surface.

Phrases with pediments

Questions about pediments

What is pediments the plural of?
Pediments is the plural of pediment.

Words near pediments in the dictionary

  1. pedimanes
  2. pedimanous
  3. pediment
  4. pedimental
  5. pedimented
  6. pediments
  7. pedinellid
  8. pedinellids
  9. pedinid
  10. pedinids
  11. pedinophycean

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