What is the meaning of APS. Phrases containing APS
See meanings and uses of APS!APS
APS
APS
APS
APS
APS
Acronyms & AI meanings
Strontium Hot Semiworks Facility
Gangsta Killa Bloods
paper disk granuloma
École Spéciale de Mécanique et d'Électricité
Reading Online Assessment Report
received your fax
National Sharing the Sky Foundation
Longlac Wood Industries
velocities of detonation
Latin America Security Operation
APS
APS
APS
pl.
of Apsis
n.
In a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.
n.
Same as Apse.
n.
The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.
n. pl.
See Apsis.
a.
Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel.
n.
A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere.
n.
A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
v. i.
To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit.
n.
See Apsis.
n.
Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.
n.
One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.
n.
A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy.
adv.
Before the /apse of a long time; soon; -- usually separated, ere long.
a.
Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.
n.
The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches.
APS
APS