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Apsidal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to an apse.

adj. Of or relating to an apsis.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, pertaining to, or in the form of an apse

adj. Of or pertaining to the apsides

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.

adj. Of or pertaining to the apse of a church.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

In astronomy, pertaining to the apsides. See apsis.

In architecture, of or relating to an apse; of the nature or form of an apse; terminating in an apse.

An apse-chapel.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. of or relating to an apse

Word Usage

"This kind of apsidal (or elsewhere even oval structures) houses ideal for thatched roofs were especially quite common during the Geometric Period (e.g. in the oldest Greek colonies at Old-Smyrna, Miletos, Ephesos; in many sanctuaries or houses on the Greek mainland, such as at Eretria, Perachora, etc)."

Cross Reference

apsidal chapel apsidal surface

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