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Architecture. a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the end of a choir in a church.
2.
Astronomy. an apsis.
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Apse
is always a great word to know.
So is colossal. Does it mean:
| the portion of the front or side of a building enclosed by or masking the end of a pitched roof |
| pertaining to a classical order whose columns or pilasters span two or more stories of a building |
Example Sentences
- The right-hand apse is covered by one of the red domes.
- For now, the crossing and the chapels around the apse are open, reached through a shed that runs through the nave.
- She had a little dog, and the dog crossed the apse with us.
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World English Dictionary
| apse (æps) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Also called: apsis a domed or vaulted semicircular or polygonal recess, esp at the east end of a church |
| 2. | astronomy another name for apsis |
| [C19: from Latin apsis, from Greek: a fitting together, arch, from haptein to fasten] | |
| apsidal | |
| —adj | |
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"semicircular extension at the end of a church," 1846, from L. apsis "an arch, a vault," from Gk. hapsis (Ionic apsis) "loop, arch," originally "a fastening, felloe of a wheel," from haptein "fasten together;" the original sense in Gk. seems to have been the joining of the arcs to form a circle, especially
EXPANDin making a wheel. The architectural term is earlier attested in Eng. in the L. form (1706).
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