ogive

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noun front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere

From late Middle English ogif, egeve, egeove, from Old French ogive, œgive, augive. Doublet of ogee.

Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father. — Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo

nose cone

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