intercolumniation
intercolumniation noun: the spaces between adjacent columns (of a colonnade).
Noun
intercolumniation (countable and uncountable, plural intercolumniations)
- The spaces between adjacent columns (of a colonnade).
- The system of such spacing.
- [W]hen vvee ſpeake of the Intercolumniation or diſtance, vvhich is due to each Order, vve meane in a Dorique, Ionicall, Corinthian Porch, or Cloiſter, or the like of one Contignation, and not in Storied buildings.1624, Henry Wotton, “The Seate, and the Worke”, in The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC, I. part, pages 39–40
- How intercolumniation is regulated in the Doric Order has been already explained at page 20: in that, the distances between the columns is governed entirely by the triglyphs of the frieze, so that there can be no medium between monotriglyphic and ditriglyphic intercolumniation, accordingly as there...1852, William Henry Leeds, Rudimentary Architecture. The orders and their æsthetic principles
Forms of intercolumniation
| plural | intercolumniations |
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Origin of intercolumniation
From inter- + columniation.
Questions about intercolumniation
- What does intercolumniation mean?
- Intercolumniation means the spaces between adjacent columns (of a colonnade).
- What part of speech is intercolumniation?
- Intercolumniation is a noun.
- What is the plural of intercolumniation?
- The plural of intercolumniation is intercolumniations.
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