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
- : shaped like a column.
- : characterized by columns: columnar architecture.
- : Also co·lum·nal. printed, arranged, etc., in columns: data in columnar form.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as incylindrical
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.
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