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Noun
- The rounded east (liturgical east) end of a church that contains or is behind the altar.
- Our private tour of the cathedral even allowed us to walk through the apse, which most tours don't.
- The interior portion of this section of the church building, excluding the ambulatory and any apse chapels.
- A semicircular projection from any building that is similar to a church's apse.
- The college has an apse that once held a small chapel.
- The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
- A reliquary: a case in which the relics of saints are kept.
- Obsolete form of apsis (“the nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit”).
Noun
- An aspen tree.
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