Entasis vs Ectasis - What's the difference?
entasis | ectasis |
(architecture) A slight convex curvature introduced into the shaft of a column for aesthetic reasons, or to compensate for the illusion of concavity.
* 1859 , Journal of the Society of Arts , Volume 7,
* 1950 , , The Architecture of Ancient Greece: An Account of Its Historic Development , ISBN 0-8196-0283-3,
* 1993 , Noel W. Smith, Greek and Interbehavioral Psychology ,
* 2005 , Lothar Haselberger, 4: Bending the Truth: Curvature and Other Refinements of the Parthenon'', Jenifer Neils (editor), ''The Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present ,
dilatation: for example, bronchiectasis, which refers to a pathologic dilatation of the bronchi of the lung.
The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.
As nouns the difference between entasis and ectasis
is that entasis is entasis while ectasis is dilatation: for example, bronchiectasis, which refers to a pathologic dilatation of the bronchi of the lung.entasis
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(wikipedia entasis) (entases)page 484,
- It was simply the curve of the entasis , approximating infinitely near to a catenary or to a very flat hyperbola. He could not definitely say whether it was one or the other, but it was nearer to these curves than to the old-fashioned straight line.
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- The entasis varies in different temples and is not found in some, as, for instance, the temple of Athena Nike and in the east portico of the Erechtheum.
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- Entasis' occurred a thousand years earlier in the Sarsen stones at Stonehenge in southern England.' Entasis is also present in Egyptian obelisks and in the vertical fins of the radiator grill of the Rolls-Royce automobile.
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- Counter to the in''creased entases''' of the pronaos and opisthodomos columns, the adjacent anta pillars and longitudinal cella walls received extraordinarily ''de''creased ' entases that almost, or even fully, reached rectilinearity.