Lunette: alternatives and connections

A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have…

Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figu…

The sharp edge or salient angle formed by two surfaces meeting each other, whether plane or curved; -- applied particularly to the edg…

A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that…

A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pu…

Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inc…

A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.

A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendere…

The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.

To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, a…

A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting the…

a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from…

A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.

Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.

The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.

An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…

That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion…

One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a…