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Architectural curve
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entasis
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a slight convexity in the shaft of a column; compensates for the illusion of concavity that viewers experience when the sides are perfectly straight [also: entases (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entasis \En"ta*sis\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? a stretching; fr. ?; ? in + ? to extend.] (Arch.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column. (Med.) Same as Entasia .
Wikipedia
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Entasis is an award-winning Danish architecture firm based in Copenhagen . It takens its name from the Greek word for tension.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context architecture English) A slight convex curvature introduced into the shaft of a column for aesthetic reasons, or to compensate for the illusion of concavity.
Usage examples of entasis.
Time chafe away the memento mori quality that the ruins first seem to spell, acting as a temporal entasis and in the eye of the beholding.
The entasis of columns and curvature of what would ordinarily be straight lines is familiar to all students of architecture.
Everything about him was suddenly limned in an unnatural brightness, and the bole of the great tree was shrunken by a brilliant entasis that attacked from the north.