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ARRIS (Fr. areste, or arete)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 649 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ARRIS (Fr. areste, or arete)

ARRIS (Fr. areste, or See also:
ARETE (O. Fr. areste, Lat. arista, ear of corn, fish-bone or spine)
arete) , in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, the See also:

sharp edge or See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle in which two sides or surfaces meet .

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