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What is an ogee?

What is an ogee? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape
  2. (architecture) A pointed arch made from two ogees
  3. (mathematics) An inflection point.
  4. (aesthetic facial surgery) The malar or cheekbone prominence transitioning into the mid-cheek hollow.
  5. (distillation) The bubble-shaped chamber of a pot still that connects the swan neck to the pot and allows distillate to expand, condense, and fall back into the pot.
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Opposite, the house with a half-timbered side wall has ogee motifs on its string-piece.
The second stage is more important, and has cusped ogee window-heads and balconies.
The exposure of photography does not pass only any more by the linear ones of ogee mouldings.
It is capable of use with other moldings, and may be reversed with just as good effect as the ogee.
The triangular entrance door is surmounted by two pinnacles and an ogee with sloping sides decorated with thistle leaves.
Later, tracery was based on the ogee, or S-shaped curve, which creates flowing, flamelike forms.

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