Definition of column

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Column (n.) A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper..

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Sublunar :: Sublumbar (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lumbar region of the vertebral column..
Ploy :: Ploy (v. i.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
Areostyle :: Areostyle (a. & n.) See Intercolumniation, and Araeostyle..
Marker :: Marker (n.) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment..
Roundness :: Roundness (n.) The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc..
Scamillus :: Scamillus (n.) A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal..
Atlantes :: Atlantes (n. pl.) Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides..
Supraspinal :: Supraspinal (a.) Situated above the vertebral column.
Facet :: Facet (n.) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
Columniation :: Columniation (n.) The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.
Matrix :: Matrix (n.) A rectangular arrangement of symbols in rows and columns. The symbols may express quantities or operations.
Fast :: Fast (n.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster..
Terete :: Terete (a.) Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants..
Decastyle :: Decastyle (n.) A portico having ten pillars or columns in front.
Overtone :: Overtone (n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or partial tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone..
Columnarity :: Columnarity (n.) The state or quality of being columnar.
Armature :: Armature (n.) Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc..
Footing :: Footing (n.) The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
Actinolite :: Actinolite (n.) A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4..
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