(n.) The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.
(n.) The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two Art Deco restaurants in the 1930s building, which were once home to the Atlantic Bar & Grill and Titanic, have been painstakingly restored, from the timber veneer, marble pillars and gold leaf architraving to the brass fittings, apple green ceiling and original wallpaper.
(2) The "architrave" created rests on the tensor tympani while the palisaded epitympanum and antrum plasty allows ventilation of the antrum.
Rectangular
Definition:
(a.) Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees.
Example Sentences:
(1) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
(2) For a long rectangular field, the agreement between measured and calculated attenuation coefficients is better than 1.5% for all energies.
(3) Similar aftereffects were obtained whether the area of the test stimulus was fixed or varied randomly from trial to trial, and whether the test stimulus was rectangular or elliptical.
(4) Computer-assisted reconstruction of the axon showed that in layer IV the axons occupied a rectangular area about 300 X 500 microns, elongated anteroposteriorly in area 17 and mediolaterally in area 18.
(5) In pentobarbital-anesthetized rats, hyperventilatory responses to rectangular mild hypercapnic normoxic gas mixtures inhalation were analysed.
(6) To estimate mechanical characteristics of such membranes, it is necessary to carry out the noncontact pressure test and membranous contact test, in addition to the usual monotonic tensile test, by using a rectangular specimen cut from the membranes.
(7) The membrane potential in single nodes of Ranvier was changed in rectangular pulse steps while the membrane currents, associated with the potential steps, were measured.
(8) At low pH, it is theorized that the trapezoidal profile of the dimer is shifted to a more rectangular configuration such that flat ribbons are formed by the lateral association of dimers.
(9) Depending on the size of the kindred, the pedigree automatically obtains a rectangular or circular appearance.
(10) The distribution of oviposition times in CL showed a great deal of variation among the populations and departed significantly (P less than 0.05) from the uniform rectangular distribution, in all but three populations.
(11) Each muscle strip was stimulated with trains of electrical rectangular pulses (10 Hz, 50-70 V, 0.5 ms).
(12) The subgel Lc(c') phases of both homologs show significant two-dimensional long range order and can be described by rectangular lattices.
(13) These concepts allow data measured for square or circular fields to be extended to calculate, for example, the percentage depth doses or output factors of rectangular or irregular fields.
(14) Fast twitch fibres of rat and rabbit show rectangular patterns of intramembrane particles in freeze-fracture preparations of the sarcolemma.
(15) It is concluded that the physical performance of sedentary people, athletes and patients with impaired cardio-pulmonary function can be more precisely qualified in quantitative terms by means of computer assisted rectangular-triangular ergospirometry.
(16) Then, in the R-phase, a large (20-50 mV) rectangular wave of depolarization arose with superimposed high-frequency oscillations.
(17) This logistic relationship is more general than the rectangular hyperbola or linear methods, provides excellent goodness of fit, and can be used as a "global" method for the entire calibration curve, rather than as a "local" method for small segments of the curve.
(18) Hill's rectangular hyperbola fitted the force-velocity data if the load during shortening was less than 70% of Fo.
(19) The effects of rectangular linearly rising (ramp) current pulses were also studied.
(20) By comparison of the scattering curves with triaxial geometric bodies which are equivalent in scattering, the tetrameric enzyme is described as a rectangular prism, with overall dimensions of A = 131.0 A, B = 131.0 A, and C = 65.0 A, and the octameric form as that of a cube with A = B = C = 120.0 A.