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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The rounded 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.”

2. isim The interior portion of this section of the church building, excluding the ambulatory and any apse chapels.
3. isim 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.”

4. isim The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
5. isim A reliquary: a case in which the relics of saints are kept.
6. isim Obsolete form of apsis (“the nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit”).
7. isim An aspen tree.