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Portico vs Mezzanine - What's the difference?

portico | mezzanine |

As nouns the difference between portico and mezzanine

is that portico is a porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building while mezzanine is a balcony in an auditorium.

As an adjective mezzanine is

fulfilling an intermediate or secondary function.

portico

English

(wikipedia portico)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.

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    mezzanine

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A balcony in an auditorium.
  • A sub-floor, in between main floors of a building.
    • On our way to the top floor, we stopped at the mezzanine .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (engineering) Fulfilling an intermediate or secondary function.
    • To make interconnections easier, we added a mezzanine PCB.