straight arch

1. 1.

   an arch with mutually supporting voussoirs that has a straight horizontal extrados and intrados

   Synonymsflat arch

   Broaderarch

Questions about straight arch

What does straight arch mean?

straight arch means "an arch with mutually supporting voussoirs that has a straight horizontal extrados and intrados".

What is another word for straight arch?

Close synonyms include flat arch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is straight arch a common word?

straight arch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.