hexastyle

/hek-suh-stahyl/US // ˈhɛk səˌstaɪl //UK // (ˈhɛksəˌstaɪl) architect //

六种风格,十六进制风格,六合宝典,十六进制

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

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Architecture.
- : having six columns, as a portico or the facade of a classical temple.

The temple was hexastyle and peripteral, and is supposed to have had fourteen columns on the sides.
This once elegant edifice was of the Doric order, a hexastyle, the columns twenty-seven feet in height.
The architecture is said closely to approach that of the hexastyle hypthral Temple of Pstum.
Hexastyle: Having six columns; as in the case of octastyle for eight.
A large proportion of the Greek temples were built in this manner, and were called hexastyle from the six columns on the front.