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apsis

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A recess or projection, with a dome or vault, at the east end of a church.
  2. noun Either of the points in the elliptical orbit of a planet, comet, or moon where it is closest or furthest from the body it orbits; examples are perihelion, aphelion, perigee, and apogee.

Similar words

apse apsidole apse chapel basilica apothesis scape severy arcosolium slype arcature

Often followed by

of and is to passage in mosaic or was

Word family

apsides

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