intercolumniationn.
/ˌɪntəkəʊlʌmnɪˈeɪʃən/ 1. The space between two adjacent columns or pillars in a building: = intercolumn n.
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1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 229 The distance, or Intercolumniation (which word Artificers doe usually borrow) may be neer four of his own Diameters.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 103 Dorique Pillers Archt from one to another, and in each intercolumniation a square stud of stone.
1761 London & Environs Described II. 195 The columns are massy, and the intercolumniation large.
1829 W. S. Landor Wks. (1846) I. 483/1 The proportions of porticoes, of columns, of intercolumniations.
2. The placing of columns, with reference to the space between them.
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1847 A. C. Smeaton Builder's Pocket Man. (new ed.) 246 That intercolumniation in which the columns are placed two diameters and a quarter from each other.
1880 Academy 21 Aug. 139/3 His explanation of the closer intercolumniation at the angles..is obviously fallacious.
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