Apsis

Quick meaning: Apsis is a noun meaning (architecture) A recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church.

Meaning

(architecture) A recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church.

More Meanings

1. (astronomy) Either of the points in the elliptical orbit of a planet, comet, or moon where it is closest or furthest from the body it orbits; examples are perihelion, aphelion, perigee, and apogee.

Example Sentences

Like Henry's collegiate church […] the cathedral is a cruciform basilica of the double bay system with four square bays in the central nave, western transoms, a quadrum for the choir, an apsis, and a transept with auxiliary apses.

Word Forms

• apsides
• apses

Synonyms for apsis

Depending on context, synonyms include apse, apside.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include apse, apsidole, basilica, apothesis, scape, arcosolium.

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