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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as redan.

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Examples

  • Did no one point out that the crux of Indian victories in redent years is vectored thrust in the SU-30 and later so they can turn inside the F-15? wiley Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Mark Bowden, Atlantic, Shilling for the F-22 2009

  • For instance, he attributes the use of the cusp or 'redent' in its more complex forms, to the necessity, or convenience, of diminishing the space of glass which the tracery grasps; and he attributes the reductions of the mouldings in the tracery bar under portions of one section, to the greater facility thus obtained by the architect in directing his workmen.

    Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859

  • Yet do you suppose that the structural convenience of the redent entirely effaces from the mind of the designer the aesthetic characters which he seeks in the cusp?

    Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859

  • Again: if you think of the tracery in its _bars_, you call the cusp a redent; but if you think of it in the _openings_, you call the apertures of it foils.

    Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859

  • Post every couple of days to the mailing lists (the LoCo list, LUGs, other open source user groups around you), post it on your Facebook wall, put it on the your LoCo Facebook page and create a Facebook event for it, post it to your LoCo forums, post it on the LoCo Directory, tweet/dent and then retweet/redent about it regularly.

    Planet Ubuntu boredandblogging 2010

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