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n. (教堂)半圆形拱顶附带建筑
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The rounded east end of a church that contains or is behind the altar.
建筑Holonyms: church, cathedral
Meronyms: ambulatory, apse chapels
Near-synonyms: chancel, presbytery, sanctuary (all broadly synonymous)
Our private tour of the cathedral even allowed us to walk through the apse, which most tours don't.
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The rounded east end of a church that contains or is behind the altar.
The interior portion of this section of the church building, excluding the ambulatory and any apse chapels.
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A semicircular projection from any building that is similar to a church's apse.
半圆形后殿
The college has an apse that once held a small chapel.
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The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
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A reliquary: a case in which the relics of saints are kept.
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Obsolete form of apsis (“the nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit”).
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An aspen tree.
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From Latin apsis, hapsis, from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch, vault”), from ἅπτω (háptō, “to bind, join”).
来源：wiktionary