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column

英['kɒləm] 美['kɑləm]
  • n. 纵队,列;专栏;圆柱,柱形物

英英释意


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