Megaron vs Megaton - What's the difference?
megaron | megaton |
(architecture, historical) The rectangular great hall in a Mycenaean building, usually supported with pillars.
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As nouns the difference between megaron and megaton
is that megaron is the rectangular great hall in a Mycenaean building, usually supported with pillars while megaton is a measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many million tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.megaron
English
(wikipedia megaron)Noun
(en-noun)page 91,
- The megara' faced north (“notebook north” equals true northeast) in the first court behind the archaic East Gate, similar in layout to their predecessors '''Megara''' 1 and 2 in the pre-Kimmerian East Court. ' Megaron C had gone through a period of use and a complete reconstruction before the Painted House was built.
page 141,
- The megaron is a hall building with an open-fronted porch, but this porch is not just any laterally confined space.
page 64,
- Probably he points out that the east room, used as oikos, is wider and shorter than the classical narrow and long megaron' form. Although this house is interpreted as two '''megarons''' side by side, Akurgal [4] also states that the east wall of the space XIV is added later to the building, which means that the east part is not a ' megaron , but a rectangular room at the first construction phase.