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The science of designing and building structures for habitation.

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casement window

Architecture; General architecture

Window hung vertically, hinged one side, so that it swings inward or outward.

bay window

Architecture; General architecture

A projecting form containing windows that rises from the ground or from some other support, such as a porch roof; see also oriel.

transom

Architecture; General architecture

Window or element above a door but within its vertical frame.

fanlight

Architecture; General architecture

A semicircular or semielliptical window above a door, usually inset with radiating glazing bars.

eustyle

Architecture; General architecture

Intercolumniation defined by Vitruvius as being of the best proportion, i.e. two and a quarter diameters.

bays

Architecture; General architecture

Internal compartments of a building; each divided from the other by subtle means such as the boundaries implied by divisions marked in the side walls (columns, pilasters, etc.) or ...

monotriglyph

Architecture; General architecture

Interval of the intercolumniation of the Doric column, which is observed by the intervention of one triglyph only between the triglyphs which come over the axes of the columns. ...

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