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名词 n.
中文释义
英 /æps/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The rounded east end of a church that contains or is behind the altar.
    — Holonyms: church, cathedral
  2. An aspen tree. dialectal,obsolete
  3. The rounded east end of a church that contains or is behind the altar.; The interior portion of this section of the church building, excluding the ambulatory and any apse chapels.
  4. A semicircular projection from any building that is similar to a church's apse.
    — The college has an apse that once held a small chapel.
  5. The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
  6. A reliquary: a case in which the relics of saints are kept.
  7. Obsolete form of apsis (“the nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit”). alt-of,obsolete

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词源

From Latin apsis, hapsis, from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch, vault”), from ἅπτω (háptō, “to bind, join”).
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