Usually means: Subtle curvature in columns, architectural.
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  1. entasis: Merriam-Webster
  2. entasis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. entasis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. entasis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. entasis: Vocabulary.com
  6. entasis: Wordnik
  7. entasis: Wiktionary
  8. entasis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. entasis: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Entasis, entasis: Dictionary.com
  11. Entasis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Entasis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. entasis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. entasis: Rhymezone
  15. Entasis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. entasis: FreeDictionary.org
  17. entasis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. entasis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. entasis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. entasis: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (entasis)

noun:  (architecture) A slight convex curvature introduced into the shaft of a column for aesthetic reasons, or to compensate for the illusion of concavity.

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