If there are four slopes it's a hipped roof, if there are only two it's the simplest form of a gabled roof. Although I suspect that they mean a house with multiple gables (like the house of seven gables...) where there are angles set into the roof which could mean weaker joints.
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Date: 2005-08-29 02:05 am (UTC)http://www.realtor.org/rmomag.nsf/pages/arch33
Those aren't the only types, actually, but at least there are pictures.
I found a second site which discusses roof types in windstorms:
http://www.flash.org/activity.cfm?currentPeril=1&activityID=182
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Date: 2005-08-29 02:11 am (UTC)Thanks for the links!
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Date: 2005-08-29 02:19 am (UTC)