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columnar

/kuh-luhm-ner/US // kəˈlʌm nər //

柱状体,柱状物,柱状结构,柱状图

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : shaped like a column.
    • : characterized by columns: columnar architecture.
    • : Also co·lum·nal. printed, arranged, etc., in columns: data in columnar form.

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Examples

  • Fragment, apparently from a columnar mass, of a stone intermediate between clink-stone and compact felspar.

  • The north of Blue-Mud Bay has furnished also specimens of ancient sandstone; with columnar rocks, probably of clink-stone.

  • Michael was informed of their disgrace by dark-eyed Mallock whose father wrote columnar letters to The Times.

  • The great columnar rampart ran almost north and south and the tent was on its eastern side.

  • Long years of labor by artists the most unconscious of their skill had been given to modelling these columnar firs.