charrette
Use Charrette in a sentence
noun
a final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
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Charrette
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
The process began with an eco-charrette to establish the sustainable goals for the building.
The best way to achieve the steps above is through a high-performance charrette.
The highlight of the conference was a design charrette.
The planning charrette should be done during the development of the building program and prior to hiring a design firm.
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