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Definition of Apsis

1. Noun. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar.

Definition of Apsis

1. n. One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

Definition of Apsis

1. Noun. (architecture) A recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church; an apse. ¹

2. Noun. (astronomy) Either of the points in the elliptical orbit of a planet or comet where it is closest or furthest from the sun; perihelion or aphelion; an apside ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Apsis

1. an apse [n -SIDES] - See also: apse

Medical Definition of Apsis

1. Origin: L. Apsis, absis, Gr, a tying, fastening, the hoop of a wheel, the wheel, a bow, arch, vault, fr. To fasten. 1. One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides. 2. In a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum. 3. Same as Apse. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Apsis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"They might chirp and chaffer, come and For pleasure or profit, her men alive— My business was hardly with them, I go The church's apsis, aisle or nave, ..."

2. Mathematical Questions and Solutions by W. J. C. Miller (1872)
"Find the major axis, the position of the apsis, the eccentricity, and the periodic time. ¡Solution by N'IMPORTE. t,s = -4, and - = ---; therefore 3 r /ira „ ..."

3. London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of by Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale (1814)
"The east end is terminated by a bold sweep, or semi-circular apsis, with three large windows below, and three smaller ones above: the soffits of Hie.se ..."

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