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pendentive

pendentive noun: the concave triangular sections of vaulting that provide the transition between a dome and the square base on which it is set and transfer the weight of the dome.

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Noun

pendentive (plural pendentives)

  1. The concave triangular sections of vaulting that provide the transition between a dome and the square base on which it is set and transfer the weight of the dome.

pendentive meaning in Tamil

pendentive in Tamil

தொங்கணம்

Forms of pendentive

pluralpendentives

Origin of pendentive

Borrowed from French pendentif.

Questions about pendentive

What does pendentive mean?
Pendentive means the concave triangular sections of vaulting that provide the transition between a dome and the square base on which it is set and transfer the weight of the dome.
What is pendentive in Tamil?
Pendentive in Tamil is தொங்கணம். See Pendentive meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pendentive?
Pendentive is a noun.
What is the plural of pendentive?
The plural of pendentive is pendentives.

Words near pendentive in the dictionary

  1. pendency
  2. Pendennis
  3. pendent
  4. pendent jurisdiction
  5. pendente lite
  6. pendentive
  7. pendentives
  8. pendently
  9. pendents
  10. Pender
  11. Pender County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pendentive (page history and authors); pendentive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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