An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc.
Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.
A point in behavior evolution that is achieved in a mode that is only active at a point in time.
Small ornamental turret usually terminating in a pyramid or cone.
A pyramidal or conical ornament placed on the top of buttresses, gables, or other architectural elements.
the highest point of achievement
a terminal decorative feature rising above a spire, lantern or so forth.
A conical ornament surmounting a gable or buttress in medieval architecture.
Ornamental crowning spire, tower, etc.
A tall, tower-shaped or spire-shaped pillar of rock.
(architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower
the highest level or degree attainable; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession"
surmount with a pinnacle; "pinnacle a pediment"
an ornamental feature frequently employed in Gothic architecture and design
steep pyramidal or conical ornament to a spire, buttress or parapet
Small ornamental tower, usually on top of pillars and on canopies. Gothic.
Element which crowns a façade, dome etc. Often used in Gothic architecture sometimes as a purely decorative feature on doorways.
Small narrow pointed tower capping buttresses and openwork gablets or portals and galleries.
The highest point. A towering peak, as of a mountain.
A slender isolated column of rock, often the erosional remnant of a butte.
Projecting or ornamental cap on the high point of a roof.
A pointed and often ornamented termination of a spire, buttress, or other extremity of a building
A vertical ornament forming the spire of a turret.
an ornamental slender turret or spire at the top of a pyramid or conical shaped roof.
A slender turret or spire. These can be found on the roof of the Library of Parliament and near the top of the Peace Tower.
a slender, pointed summit placed on top of buttresses, gables, etc.
A raised end of a ridge, gable or top point of a hip
a high tower or spire-shaped pillar of rock or coral, alone or cresting a summit PNLU
A tower, primarily ornamental, that also functions in Gothic architecture to give additional weight to a buttress or a pier.
A small tower, usually tapered at the top
a high peak or point of rock. [AHDOS
Small turret - like termination crowning spires
A pinnacle (from Latin pinnaculum, a little feather, pinna, compare panache) is an architectural ornament originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations.