(n.) Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.
Example Sentences:
(1) This earned Johnson a Time magazine cover story and unprecedented international attention, essentially because of one clever and incidental gesture, the broken pediment that tops the building.
(2) It clings to the flank of its sandstone church, whose brace of tall, pencil-straight towers are linked by an elegant classical pediment.
(3) (The bizarre knot of branches top left in that Triumph of Pan and the foreboding chunk of pediment signing off The Triumph of David feel like Poussin's attempts at repartee.)
(4) In the middle of Place Charles de Gaulle, a vast tricolour flapped below a list of Napoleon's victories on the Aarch's pediment.
(5) These are "stone hedge" entrances of old row houses that have beautifully carved pediments with European or Chinese motifs.
Superstructure
Definition:
(n.) Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis
(n.) all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively.
(n.) The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The interference of the Nt binding with chromatin proteins maintaining the sub- and superstructure will be discussed.
(2) When the stapes superstructure was intact, 52% of the patients with canal-up operations had an air-bone gap of less than 20 dB.
(3) The significance of superstructural deformities on juvenile hallux valgus is discussed.
(4) Their gel electrophoretic mobilities were studied in the presence of the tetracation, spermine, since it was previously suggested, on the basis of theoretical analysis, that spermine can increase DNA bending and thus could be useful in revealing DNA superstructural features.
(5) Cluster headache and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania are assumed to be so closely related that they from a classification point of view have been grouped together under the superstructure: cluster headache syndrome.
(6) U.S.A. 79, 3423-3427) that poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation of pancreatic nucleosomes causes relaxation of the chromatin superstructure through H1 modification.
(7) Evidence has been presented to prove that cathodoluminescence (CL) studies of chromosomes and spread, Giemsa stained chromatin may lead to early detection of structural changes, such as the superstructure of heterochromatin.
(8) In the stapes the disturbance in lamellar bone formation can lead to extreme thinness, dehiscence, and nonunion of the stapedial superstructure with the footplate.
(9) Chromatin undergoes two successive transitions: the first transition is explained by a lengthening of nucleosomal chains without modification of the orientation of nucleosomes within the superstructure and the second one by the unwinding of the DNA tails and internucleosomal segments.
(10) Four ITP subfractions occurred common in the otosclerotic stapes footplate, the superstructure and the cortical bone.
(11) The technique described in this report offers the advantage of wide exposure, symmetrical approach to the superstructures of the face and orbits, the potential for resection of a large portion of the anterior cranial floor, and substantial reconstruction which is a major factor in avoiding complications.
(12) The increase of CD signal at 280 nm (from 2000 to about 4000 cm2 deg.dmole-1) in the case of sheared chromatin is not related to the loss of superstructure but to the structural changes of DNA inside the nucleosomal core which are always produced by shearing.
(13) However, in cells cotransfected with a complete infectious poliovirus cDNA, the requirement for the stem-loops in this large superstructure was reduced.
(14) The second is the body as superstructure composed of bones, muscles, and vital spots (marma-s), which supports the fluid body.
(15) In this clinical situation, the abutment teeth on either side of a four-tooth gap were not considered strong enough to support a six-unit superstructure.
(16) Asthma bronchiale, as all long-lasting diseases with unpleasant subjective complaints, has a considerable psychic superstructure.
(17) These correspond with the type of reconstruction employed such as an intact ossicular chain, absence of the malleus, absence of the superstructure of the stapes, or both.
(18) Methylation protection experiments suggest a nested head-to-tail superstructure containing two tetraplexes bonded front-to-back via G quartets formed by out-of-register guanines.
(19) However, when the stapes superstructure is intact, the difference in hearing function is not remarkable, and must be weighed against the potential for residual disease or recurrence associated with canal-up procedures.
(20) The chirality of these complexes appears dramatically different for the two LREs, suggesting that their different superstructural features give rise to different interactions with the polyamine.