apsis

1 The earliest example of a more animated treatment is, perhaps, the figure in the apsis of St. John Lateran.

2 But the vault, the side walls, and those of the apsis, all the prisms, cylinders, cones, were bathed in the electric fluid.

3 The line of the apsides has a slow forward angular motion in the plane of the planet's orbit, being retrograde only in the case of Venus.

4 The semicircular apsides, with a decorative band beneath the cornices of the exterior galleries, are also a distinctly Rhenish detail.

5 A few trees, among others an almond-tree—one of the emblems of hope—had taken root in the broken wall; two enormous pines standing close against the apsis served as lightning-rods.

6 That is to say, he assumed a revolving line of apsides in an elliptical orbit traversed by a pretty strongly compressed pair of globes.

7 The half domes of the apsis and two transepts, which were of well-built masonry, were still entire, and the original frescos remain upon them.

8 The “line of apsides” is that which joins them, forming the major axis of the orbit.

9 The list of relics on the right of the apsis of Sta.

10 Each term is sometimes called an apsis, which refers to the nearest or farthest point between a celestial body and its host.

11 Without spire or tower, and divided into three parts of unequal length and height, the nave, the choir, and the circular apsis, it resembles one of the meanest of our parish churches in England.

12 A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept. µ This word is also written apsis and absis.

13 Behind us rises the noble apsis of the cathedral.

14 From the north and south faces of both rooms are semi-circular apsides, projecting 6 feet 6 inches, containing the Collimator piers and the vertical openings for observation.

15 Any persons whom it could please have no better notion of what the words referred to signify than of the meaning of apsides and asymptotes.

16 In the choir the arches become pointed, but with Norman mouldings: the apsis is a re-construction.

17 These are supported by short massy pillars: an embattled moulding runs round the windows.—In the choir the arches become pointed, but with Norman mouldings: the apsis is a reconstruction.

18 At one end of the church is a small door, and at the other end a semicircular apsis; the windows are small apertures like loop-holes.

19 At the further end of this chamber was a stone altar, standing upon one or two steps, in an apsis or semicircular recess.

20 And, we might also ask, why the tangential resistance to the comet of Encke should not also produce a retrograde motion in the apsides of the orbit, instead of diminishing its period?

1 拱点

apsidal apse

2 远日点

aphelion

3 近日点

perihelion