apside

Etymology

Back-formation from apsides, from Ancient Greek [Term?] (“apsides”) (plural form), from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís) (singular form)

noun

  1. (astronomy) Synonym of apsis
    The phenomena which Sirius presented about 1841, that being according to Peters (confirmed by the results above) the time of the passage of the lower apside, are sufficiently remarkable; 1862, Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, volume 22
  2. (architecture) Synonym of apse

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