Our language is expanding all the time. Whenever new inventions, styles, or ideas are created, old words take on new meanings or new words are added. For example, the word computer took on a new meaning with the invention of the high-speed electronic machine that stores information and performs mathematical and logical calculations. The technical terms software and hardware entered our language.
All fields of science and applied arts use technical terms that have particular meanings. The diagrams below will help you understand some technical terms used in architecture.
Use the diagrams to answer these questions:
1. What does the term post mean in architecture?
2. What other meanings does the word have?
3. What does the term keystone refer to?
4. What meaning does capital have in architecture?
5. What other meanings does the word have?
6. What parts make up a column?
7. What parts make up an entablature?
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