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diastyle
A term used to designate an intercolumniation of three or four diameters.
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terms abutment or abuttal, architectonic, architectonics, architectural, astylar, bolster, bracket, castellated or castled, cinquecento, cloistered, colossal or giant, composite, cradling, crenellate or (U.S.) crenelate, denticulate, diastyle, ...

Intercolumniation - The space between columns measured in diameters. Vitruvius established five main ratios, 1½ D Pycnostyle, 2 D Systyle, 2½ D Eustyle, 3 D Diastyle, 4 D Araeostyle.

See also: Arch, Greek, Architecture, Floor, Roman

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