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CYMA (Gr. Kvaa, wave)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 690 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CYMA (Gr. Kvaa, See also:wave) , in See also:architecture, a moulding of See also:double curvature, See also:concave at one end, See also:convex at the other. When the concave See also:part is uppermost, it is called a cyma recta; but if the convex portion is at the See also:top, it is called a cyma reversa.

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