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EXTRADOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extrados mean? 

EXTRADOS (noun)
  The noun EXTRADOS has 1 sense:

1. the exterior curve of an archplay

  Familiarity information: EXTRADOS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EXTRADOS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The exterior curve of an arch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("extrados" is a kind of...):

curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)


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