roofline.

The outline or profile formed by a roof or a group of roofs.

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Words that belong together

• broken roofline
• steep roofline

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The broken roofline made the connected buildings appear separate at dusk.

She recognized the steep roofline before the facade came into view.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Singular roofline; plural rooflines. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: precise built-space description, structural component naming, spatial orientation, interior material description. Disciplines: fiction writing, architectural description, advanced descriptive English. Commonness: moderately common.