apsis 的定义
plural ap·si·des [ap-si-deez]. /ˈæp sɪˌdiz/.
- Astronomy. either of two points in an eccentric orbit, one farthest from the center of attraction, the other nearest to the center of attraction.
- Architecture. an apse.
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- The nave of the chapel is in tolerably good preservation, but the apsis has suffered severely from damp.
- The tomb is in the wall, behind a range of pillars, which form a kind of open screen round the apsis.
- But the choir and apsis were previously of a different æra from the rest of the edifice.
- The seven-sided apsis with ambulatory, on which open out seven pentagonal radiating chapels.
- Between the apsis and the nave stood the altar, or rather the common table, canopied by a baldachin supported by columns.