Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the shape of a column.
- adjective Constructed with or having columns.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a column; formed in columns; like the shaft of a column.
- Of or pertaining to columns, or to a column.
- In geology, divided into columns, by tension-joints, as is frequent in flows of basalt. The Giant's Causeway, in Ireland, is a famous instance.
- Arranged, written, or printed in columns, as in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc., writing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.
- adjective (Anat.) epithelium in which the cells are prismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover.
- adjective (Geol.) a structure consisting of more or less regular columns, usually six-sided, but sometimes with eight or more sides. The columns are often fractured transversely, with a cup joint, showing a concave surface above. This structure is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the
shape of acolumn . - adjective
Constructed withcolumns .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the form of a column
- adjective characterized by columns
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Longer term, Schlegel said performance could also be boosted using an emerging architecture known as a columnar databases, which optimise the database to extract a few columns of data extremely quickly, rather than rows of data.
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Longer term, Schlegel said performance could also be boosted using an emerging architecture known as a columnar databases, which optimise the database to extract a few columns of data extremely quickly, rather than rows of data.
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Longer term, Schlegel said performance could also be boosted using an emerging architecture known as a columnar databases, which optimise the database to extract a few columns of data extremely quickly, rather than rows of data.
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Longer term, Schlegel said performance could also be boosted using an emerging architecture known as a columnar databases, which optimise the database to extract a few columns of data extremely quickly, rather than rows of data.
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Longer term, Schlegel said performance could also be boosted using an emerging architecture known as a columnar databases, which optimise the database to extract a few columns of data extremely quickly, rather than rows of data.
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Some users of these "columnar" databases rave about them.
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The masses are often evenly and longitudinally striated by a kind of columnar structure, exhibiting a fascicle of small prisms; and some of these prisms ending sooner than others, give a broken termination of great beauty, similar to our form of the emblem of 'the order of the star.'
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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Or it could be a screen of plants, such as columnar dwarf evergreens or tall grasses.
The Seattle Times 2009
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Or it could be a screen of plants, such as columnar dwarf evergreens or tall grasses.
The Seattle Times 2009
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Or it could be a screen of plants, such as columnar dwarf evergreens or tall grasses.
The Seattle Times 2009
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