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Apse vs Apside - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between apse and apside

is that apse is (architecture) a semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar while apside is (astronomy) an apsis.

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English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture) A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar.
  • The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
  • A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
  • (astronomy, obsolete) The nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit. More usually called an apsis.
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) An aspen tree.

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    apside

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy) An apsis.
  • * 1862 , Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society , volume 22:
    • The phenomena which Sirius presented about 1841, that being according to Peters (confirmed by the results above) the time of the passage of the lower apside , are sufficiently remarkable;