ogive

Definition of Ogive in English :

1. nose cone, ogive

front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ogive

noun

1.

a diagonal rib or groin of a Gothic vault

2. another name for lancet arch

3. statistics

a graph the ordinates of which represent cumulative frequencies of the values indicated by the corresponding abscissas

4.

the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload during its passage through the atmosphere

noun

1.

the diagonal rib or groin of a Gothic vault

2.

a pointed, or Gothic, arch

3.

a similarly shaped nose of a bullet, rocket, or other projectile

n.

1. Statistics

a. A distribution curve in which the frequencies are cumulative.

b. A frequency distribution.

2. Architecture

a. A diagonal rib of a Gothic vault.

b. A pointed arch.