Definitions for apsis

apsis ap·sis

Spelling: [ap-sis]
IPA: /ˈæp sɪs/

Apsis is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in apsis (aipss).

Definitions for apsis

noun

  1. Astronomy. either of two points in an eccentric orbit, one (higher apsis) farthest from the center of attraction, the other (lower apsis) nearest to the center of attraction.
  2. Architecture. an apse.

Origin of apsis

1595-1605; Latin Greek hapsís (felloe of) a wheel, arch, vault, orig., fastening, equivalent to háp(tein) to fasten + -sis -sis

Examples for apsis

Between the apsis and the nave stood the altar, or rather the common table, canopied by a baldachin supported by columns.

But the choir and apsis were previously of a different æra from the rest of the edifice.

The nave of the chapel is in tolerably good preservation, but the apsis has suffered severely from damp.

It has an altar and an apsis, but it is adapted to preaching rather than to singing.

The tomb is in the wall, behind a range of pillars, which form a kind of open screen round the apsis.

Then a man got up by the apsis and stood there half hidden by the stalactite rock.

It does not span the apsis of a church; it spans rivers and valleys.

The apsis itself is probably a re-erection with the original materials, but anterior to Duke William.

In the former the pillars were probably square, and the apsis is not marked outside.

In 1473, he was employed by the latter to paint, in the apsis of SS.

Word Value for apsis
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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