three-centered arch

1. 1.

   a round arch whose inner curve is drawn with circles having three centers

   Synonymsbasket-handle arch

   Broaderround arch

Questions about three-centered arch

What does three-centered arch mean?

three-centered arch means "a round arch whose inner curve is drawn with circles having three centers".

What is another word for three-centered arch?

Close synonyms include basket-handle 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 three-centered arch a common word?

three-centered 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.