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  2. Attic fan - Wikipedia

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    An attic fan installed underneath a roof. A powered attic ventilator, or attic fan, is a ventilation fan that regulates the heat level of a building's attic by exhausting hot air. A thermostat is used to automatically turn the fan off and on, while sometimes a manual switch is used. An attic fan can be gable mounted or roof mounted. Additional ...

  3. Cornice - Wikipedia

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    A rake is an architectural term for an eave or cornice that runs along the gable of the roof of a modern residential structure. It may also be called a sloping cornice, a raking cornice. The trim and rafters at this edge are called rakes, rake board, rake fascia, verge-boards, barge-boards or verge-or barge-rafters. [3]

  4. Pediment - Wikipedia

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    A variant is the "segmental" or "arch" pediment, where the normal angular slopes of the cornice are replaced by one in the form of a segment of a circle, in the manner of a depressed arch. [10] Both traditional and segmental pediments have "broken" and "open" forms. In the broken pediment the raking cornice is left open at the apex. [11]

  5. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    A board fastened to the projecting gables of a roof. Barrel vault An architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance. Bartizan An overhanging, wall-mounted turret projecting from the walls, usually at the corners, of medieval fortifications or ...

  6. Geison - Wikipedia

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    The geison is the part of the entablature that projects outward from the top of the frieze in the Doric order and from the top of the frieze course (or sometimes architrave) of the Ionic and Corinthian orders; it forms the outer edge of the roof on the sides of a structure with a sloped roof. The upper edge of the exterior often had a drip edge ...

  7. Sima (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The sima runs around all four sides of a building.It may be made of terracotta or stone. There are two basic types of sima: The raking sima; The lateral sima; The raking sima is continuous and generally follows the slope of the roof.

  8. Sharon Stone Reveals Unexpected Family Link to Royalty - AOL

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    Sharon Stone "feels particularly good" after finding out that she has royal blood in her veins. The actress recently appeared on the TV series Finding Your Roots, which looks at the ancestry of ...

  9. Fan coil unit - Wikipedia

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    These motors are sometimes called DC motors, sometimes EC motors and occasionally DC/EC motors. DC stands for direct current and EC stands for electronically commutated.. DC motors allow the speed of the fans within a fan coil unit to be controlled by means of a 0-10 Volt input control signal to the motor/s, the transformers and speed switches associated with AC fan coils are not required.