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Definition of Scheme arch
1. Noun. An arch whose height is less than half its width.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scheme Arch
Literary usage of Scheme arch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Stonemason and the Bricklayer: Being Practical Details and Drawings (1891)
"3, Plate VI., converge to the centre of the arc, as the bricks aa to the point
6, the arch is then technically called a " scheme " arch. ..."
2. The Panorama of Science and Art: Embracing the Sciences of Aerostation by James Smith (1815)
"But whether this be done or not, the defect will not appear in practice. Fig.
6, a scheme arch, one brick, that is, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Imperfect Arch. Same as Diminished Arch (see also scheme arch). All these terms
seem to arise in the fancy, natural to academic students of neo-Roman style, ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"... it more or less than an exact semicircle, in which forme; ckse it approaches
the horse-shoe curve, and in the latter becomes a segmental or scheme-arch. ..."
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