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What is an ogee?

What is an ogee? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape
  2. (architecture) A pointed arch made from two ogees
  3. (mathematics) An inflection point.
  4. (aesthetic facial surgery) The malar or cheekbone prominence transitioning into the mid-cheek hollow.
  5. (distillation) The bubble-shaped chamber of a pot still that connects the swan neck to the pot and allows distillate to expand, condense, and fall back into the pot.
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Later, tracery was based on the ogee, or S-shaped curve, which creates flowing, flamelike forms.
It is capable of use with other moldings, and may be reversed with just as good effect as the ogee.
Second, because the ogee has in it, in a combined form, the outlines of nearly all the other types.
The second stage is more important, and has cusped ogee window-heads and balconies.
The feet were usually of the curved ogee, or elongated S, variety, and the handles and keyholes of decorated brass.
The exposure of photography does not pass only any more by the linear ones of ogee mouldings.

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