Atrium vs Quadrangle - What's the difference?
atrium | quadrangle |
(architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
(architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
(anatomy) Any enclosed sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.
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, passage=Nexine 0.5? thick, separating from the sexine about 5? from the pore and forming a deep, well-defined atrium .}}
(geometry) A geometric shape with four angles and four straight sides; a four-sided polygon.
A courtyard which is quadrangular.
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The buildings forming the border of such a courtyard.
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As nouns the difference between atrium and quadrangle
is that atrium is atrium (a square hall lit from above) while quadrangle is (geometry) a geometric shape with four angles and four straight sides; a four-sided polygon.atrium
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(wikipedia atrium)Noun
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* (room in Roman homes) cavaediumDerived terms
* atrial * atriate English nouns with irregular plurals ----quadrangle
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(wikipedia quadrangle)Noun
(en noun)- I looked up from my desk and saw that suddenly there were big flakes twirling down into the quadrangle , settling on the carefully pruned shrubbery bordering the crosswalks, the three elms still holding many of their leaves, the still-green lawns.
- The quadrangle surrounding the Far Common was never considered absolutely essential to the Devon School.