Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In architecture, pertaining to that arrangement of columns in a classical order in which the intercolumniation measures three diameters. See cut under
intercolumniation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) See under
intercolumniation .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture An
intercolumnation of threecolumn diameters .
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Examples
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The columns are then to be distributed over the stylobates in the manner above described: close together in the pycnostyle; in the systyle, diastyle, or eustyle, as they are described and arranged above.
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The construction will be diastyle when we can insert the thickness of three columns in an intercolumniation, as in the case of the temple of
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Such will be the scheme established for diastyle buildings.
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There are five classes of temples, designated as follows: pycnostyle, with the columns close together; systyle, with the intercolumniations a little wider; diastyle, more open still; araeostyle, farther apart than they ought to be; eustyle, with the intervals apportioned just right.
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In the diastyle, the height of a column should be measured off into eight and a half parts, and the thickness of the column fixed at one of these parts.
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