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orthostates

/awr-thos-tuh-teez/US // ɔrˈθɒs təˌtiz //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural or·thos·ta·tai [awr-thos-tuh-tahy]. /ɔrˈθɒs təˌtaɪ/.

    • : orthostat.

Examples

  • This is unlikely because the floor level would then have been above the base of the orthostates.

  • They are firmly founded on the rock and reach up nearly to the base of the orthostates.

  • Thus the eastern cella, if it lay at the level of its porch strangely lacked interior orthostates in its north and south walls.

  • The are interior walls on either side of a door which in the Erechtheum reached up only five courses above the orthostates.