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columnless

columnless adjective: lacking columns.

Adjective

columnless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking columns.
    • The films with columnless structure...1989, L. E. McCandlish, Multicomponent ultrafine microstructures
    • The longest (known as building A) is a columnless hairpin hall, with its usual porch at the entrance, or so it would seem.1998, Joseph Rykwert, The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture

Origin of columnless

From column + -less.

Questions about columnless

What does columnless mean?
Columnless means lacking columns.
What part of speech is columnless?
Columnless is an adjective.

Words near columnless in the dictionary

  1. columnization
  2. columnize
  3. columnized
  4. columnizes
  5. columnizing
  6. columnless
  7. columnlike
  8. columns
  9. Columns of Gediminas
  10. columns of Türck
  11. columnstore

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