Look up: stylobate

1. Stylobate
   In architecture a stylobate is the uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported.
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2. Stylobate
   the top step of the crepidoma. See Classical Architecture.
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3. Stylobate
   In architecture, this is the platform or foundation for a row of columns. On the Parthenon, the top step of the three-step platform is known as the stylobate. On the stylobate rest the bases of the columns which support the entablature.
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4. Stylobate
   Sty'lo·bate noun [ Latin stylobates , stylobata , Greek ...; ... a pillar + ... one that treads, from ... to go.] (Architecture) The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base .
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5. Stylobate
   • (n.) The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.
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6. stylobate
   (from the article `order`) There are many separate elements that make up a complete column and entablature. (See the Figure.) At the bottom of the column is the stylobate; this ...
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7. Stylobate
   with stylobate at top, in the Doric Temple of Segesta, Sicily. In στυλοβάτης-->) is the top step of the crepidoma, the stepped platform on which colonnades of temple columns are placed (it is the floor of the temple). The platform was built on a leveling course that...
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