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1.
(architecture) The rounded east end of a church that contains or is behind the altar.
Holonyms: church, cathedral
Meronyms: ambulatory, apse chapels
Near-synonyms: chancel, presbytery, sanctuary (all broadly synonymous)
Our private tour of the cathedral even allowed us to walk through the apse, which most tours don't.
Đồng nghĩa: apsis, apside, chancel, presbytery, sanctuary[Appendix:Glossary
2.
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.
3.
The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
4.
A reliquary: a case in which the relics of saints are kept.
5.
(alt of, obsolete)(astronomy) Obsolete form of apsis (“the nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit”).
Đồng nghĩa: apsis, apside
6.
(dialectal, obsolete)(obsolete or dialectal) An aspen tree.

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From Latin apsis, hapsis, from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (arch, vault), from ἅπτω (to bind, join).