Dictionary - Definition of ABSIS


Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. An alternative spelling for "Apsis": One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)		Top

"Absis" is a common misspelling or typo for: basis, absist.

Date "Absis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Specialty Definition: ABSIS

Domain	Definition
Antiquities	Absis or Apsis (hapsis). Literally, a fastening of any kind. It was applied specially to the joining together of the extremities of a piece of wood, so as to give it the shape of a bow; and hence it came to signify anything of that shape, such as a bow, an arch, or a wheel (Hes. Op. 424; Herod. iv. 72.) The next transition of meaning is to anything vaulted (for example, hê hupourania hapsis, the vault of heaven, Phaedr. 247 B); and in this sense it was adopted in architecture, first, for any building or portion of a building of a circular form, or vaulted (Epist. ii. 17. 18), and more especially for the circular and vaulted end of a basilica (Paul. Nol. Ep. 12). In Christian churches the apse came to mean the end of the choir, where the bishop's throne was placed. (references)
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Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. An alternative spelling for "Apsis": One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)		Top

"ABSIS" is a common misspelling or typo for: basis, absist.

Date "ABSIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Domain	Definition
Antiquities	Absis or Apsis (hapsis). Literally, a fastening of any kind. It was applied specially to the joining together of the extremities of a piece of wood, so as to give it the shape of a bow; and hence it came to signify anything of that shape, such as a bow, an arch, or a wheel (Hes. Op. 424; Herod. iv. 72.) The next transition of meaning is to anything vaulted (for example, hê hupourania hapsis, the vault of heaven, Phaedr. 247 B); and in this sense it was adopted in architecture, first, for any building or portion of a building of a circular form, or vaulted (Epist. ii. 17. 18), and more especially for the circular and vaulted end of a basilica (Paul. Nol. Ep. 12). In Christian churches the apse came to mean the end of the choir, where the bishop's throne was placed. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.		Top