stelè

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.

   “A superior class of members...had their names inscribed upon a marble stélé or column.”

2. isim Any carved or engraved surface.

   “Two large hieroglyphed steles incised upon the face of a projecting mass of boldly rounded cliff.”

3. isim An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.

   “Stele. The ornaments on the ridge of a Greek temple, answering to the antefixæ on the summit of the flank entablatures, are thus designated.”

4. isim The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.

   “The stele may have—in different structures—one to many protoxylem (primitive wood) groups, and is accordingly described as monarch...diarch...triarch...tetrarch...polyarch.”

5. isim Obsolete form of stele (“upright slab; column”).
6. isim Obsolete form of stele (“upright slab; column”).