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Noun Concept
Categories: Earthquake engineering, Articles with short description, Columns and entablature, Architectural elements, Structural system
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column  pillar  architectural column  Architectural Columns  Collumn
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(architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure WordNet 3.0
English:
architecture
Definitions
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(architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. Wikipedia
Vertical structural element in architecture. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Structural element sustaining the weight of a building Wikidata
A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration. Wiktionary
IS A
upright
support
architectural structure
architectural element
HAS PART
abacus
capital
springer
spiral
Hypotrachelion
+8 relations
PART OF
temple
building
colonnade
sacred way
perron
HAS KIND
atlas
caryatid
newel
pilaster
pile
+40 relations
HAS INSTANCE
Temple of Human Passions
Pillar of the Boatmen
Caja Madrid Obelisk
Lhasa Zhol Pillar
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial
+63 relations
CATEGORY DOMAIN
architecture
DERIVATION
columnar
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Paulys Realenzyklopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft
DIFFERENT FROM
victory column
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
column, pillar
Wikipedia
EN
column
Wikidata
EN
column
Wiktionary
EN
column
Wikipedia Redirections
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Architectural Columns, Collumn, Column (architecture), column drum, columns, pillar, pillars, structural column, Y-column, Y-shaped column
Wikidata Alias
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architectural column, Column, column drum, pillar, structural column, Y-column, Y-shaped column

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