Meanings of spandrel in English

For the arches and spandrel walls the gravel was passed over a 2-in.

The martyrdom of St Edmund in the next spandrel is a most realistic picture.

The spandrel arch centers were each used twice and cost per M. ft. B. M. for

The first and third spandrel arch on each side of the piers was made with an expansion joint in the crown.

This comes close to being the sort of "spandrel" that Ron Pies discusses in his critique of Lehrer's article.

A three-dimensional spandrel, or pendentive, contrasted with a more conventional two dimensional spandrel between arches in a linear row (below).

Near by are August Jaeger's figures of Abundance, four times repeated on each gateway; also his spandrel figures, still adding harvest thoughts.

Opposite to the door is the fireplace of freestone, imitated from an arch in the cloister at Melrose, with a peculiarly graceful spandrel.

Is the umbilical brooding chamber a coopted spandrel- aspacethat arose as a nonadaptive, geometric byproduct of winding a tube around an axis?

In the spandrel over the third pillar from the west the descent of Christ into Hades, represented by a great dragon's jaw, is shown.

All told there are 5100 window panes and 2380 spandrel panes to be cleaned on the west gace & slightly more on the east.

The figures on the spandrels represent the application of power to machinery.

The spandrels originated as a nonadaptive side-consequence of a prior architectural decision.

Structural miltons, as necessarily and automatically consequential, are all, and collectively, spandrels.

We must then pose the second question about the relative frequency of spandrels.

The spandrels between the arches are diapered in low relief with leaf ornament.