column
英 ['k?l?m]
美['kɑl?m]
- n. 縱隊，列；專欄；圓柱，柱形物
英英釋意
- 1. a line of (usually military) units following one after another
- 2. a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands
- 3. a linear array of numbers one above another
- 4. anything tall and thin approximating the shape of a column or tower;
- "the test tube held a column of white powder"
- "a tower of dust rose above the horizon"
- "a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite"
- 5. an article giving opinions or perspectives
- 6. a vertical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (as a monument or a column of air)
- 7. (architeture) a tall cylindrical vertical upright and used to support a structure