Entasis

Word ENTASIS
Character 7
Hyphenation en ta sis
Pronunciations /ˈɛntəsɪs/

Definitions and meanings of "Entasis"

What do we mean by entasis?

A slight convexity or swelling, as in the shaft of a column, intended to compensate for the illusion of concavity resulting from straight sides. noun

In architecture, the swelling or outward curve of tho profile of tho shaft of a column. noun

In pathology, constrictive or tonic spasm, as cramp, lockjaw, etc. See tetanus. Also entasia. noun

A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column. noun

Same as Entasia. noun

A slight convex curvature introduced into the shaft of a column for aesthetic reasons, or to compensate for the illusion of concavity. noun

A slight convexity in the shaft of a column; compensates for the illusion of concavity that viewers experience when the sides are perfectly straight noun

A slight convex curvature introduced into the shaft of a column for aesthetic reasons, or to compensate for the illusion of concavity.

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The word "entasis" in example sentences

The ancient Greeks used a technique known as entasis which incorporates a slight convexity in the columns of the Parthenon to compensate for the illusion of concavity created by parallel lines. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"I was reading a guide book which explained that the bulging of the columns 'base - known as entasis - is to counteract the well-known visual illusion that if you don't bulge them out in the middle, they appear waisted in the middle.

Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. ❋ Wills, Garry (2003)

With regard to the enlargement made at the middle of columns, which among the Greeks is called [Greek: entasis], at the end of the book a figure and calculation will be subjoined, showing how an agreeable and appropriate effect may be produced by it. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)

This peculiarity is a convexity, or _entasis_, as it is called, on the inner faces. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

The entasis as given by Fra Giocondo in the edition of 1511. 2. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)

These provide the slight entasis to the outline which is found in so many spires, as it is in classic columns, and is designed to correct the appearance of hollowness which would occur in so long a straight line. ❋ Frederick W. Woodhouse (N/A)

Sometimes they would give it, with exaggerated refinement, the _entasis_ of the Greek column. ❋ Various (N/A)

And they are an illustration of what was a marked characteristic of all classic architecture, which shows a slight curvature or entasis in its long lines. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

The entasis of columns and curvature of what would ordinarily be straight lines is familiar to all students of architecture. ❋ Various (N/A)

The exaggeration in the entasis of the archaic column disappears, its tapering was diminished, its height increased, and the overhang of the capitals reduced, till in the Theseion (465 B. C.) and the Parthenon (450-438 B. C.) we reach the final inimitable type. ❋ Various (N/A)

The entasis from the temple of Mars Ultor in Rome compared with ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)

Peyton had opposed a laughing refusal, enforced by the presence of two fellow-architects, young men with lingering traces of the Beaux Arts in their costume and vocabulary, who stood about in Gavarni attitudes and dazzled the ladies by allusions to fenestration and entasis. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

In some early Doric temples, as the one at Assos in Asia Minor, there is no entasis. ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

This addition to the form of a truncated cone is the entasis. ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

The diminution of the shaft is naturally less than in the Doric, and the entasis, where any has been detected, is exceedingly slight. ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

Footnote: Observe that the entasis is so slight that the lowest diameter of the shaft is always the greatest diameter. ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

A column of the Parthenon, with its inclination, its tapering, its entasis, and its fluting, could not have been constructed without the most conscientious skill. ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

Above them rise the columns, tapering gently as they ascend, but without any swell or entasis. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

The belfry windows are generally found to consist of two semicircular-headed lights, divided by a kind of rude balluster shaft of peculiar character, the entasis of which is sometimes encircled with rude annulated mouldings; this shaft supports a plain oblong impost or abacus, which extends through the whole of the thickness of the wall, or nearly so, and from this one side of the arch of each light springs. ❋ Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1846)

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