Meanings (ES + gloss)
ábsida • ábside
A semicircular projection from a building, especially the rounded east end of a church that contains the altar.
The draughtsman could not have held the sheet with the apse at the tip, for then, instead of shading away from the edge, most of his hatched lines would begin in the uncharted midd…
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ápside
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