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Porch vs Atrium - What's the difference?

porch | atrium |

In architecture terms the difference between porch and atrium

is that porch is a covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof while atrium is a square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

porch

English

Noun

(es)
  • (architecture) A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof.
  • *
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  • A portico; a covered walk.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * porch monkey

    See also

    * loggia *

    atrium

    English

    (wikipedia atrium)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (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.
  • * {{quote-book, 1965, Janet Kircher Warter, Palynology of a Lignite of Lower Eocene (Wilcox) Age from Kemper County citation
    • , passage=Nexine 0.5? thick, separating from the sexine about 5? from the pore and forming a deep, well-defined atrium .}}

    Synonyms

    * (room in Roman homes) cavaedium

    Derived terms

    * atrial * atriate English nouns with irregular plurals ----