Uttal

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (architecture) A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar.
  2. The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
  3. A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
  4. (astronomy, obsolete) The nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit. More usually called an apsis.
  5. (obsolete or dialectal) An aspen tree.

Exempel

  • "ʻI myself will open a convent for nursing geese, a monastery for sainted swine, and I shall build a miniature apse in a microscope so that paramecium can attend services and tell their beads with their flagella.ʼ"

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