ogive

Questions about ogive

What is another word for ogive?

It depends which ogive you mean. In the sense “front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere”, the synonyms are nose cone. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of ogive?

WordNet records no antonym for ogive. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for ogive come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of ogive

• Full entry for ogiveAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for ogiveWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.