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intercolumniation|ˌɪntəkəʊlʌmnɪˈeɪʃən|
[f. L. intercolumni-um intercolumn + -ation.]
1. The space between two adjacent columns or pillars in a building: = intercolumn.
1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1651) 229 The distance, or Intercolumniation (which word Artificers doe usually borrow) may be neer four of his own Diameters. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 103 Dorique Pillars Archt from one to another, and in each intercolumniation a square stud of stone. 1761London & Environs II. 195 The columns are massy, and the intercolumniation large. 1829Landor Wks. (1846) I. 483/1 The proportions of porticoes, of columns, of intercolumniations.
2. The placing of columns, with reference to the space between them.
1847Smeaton Builder's Man. 246 That intercolumniation in which the columns are placed two diameters and a quarter from each other. 1880Academy 21 Aug. 139/3 His explanation of the closer intercolumniation at the angles..is obviously fallacious. |