• In architecture, entasis is the application of a convex curve to a surface for aesthetic purposes, or increasing strength. Its best-known use is in certain...
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  • Entasi (Greek: Ένταση; English: Intensity) is the third studio album by Greek singer Kostas Martakis, released in Greece and Cyprus on 5 December 2011...
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    channel Official On YouTube. Martakis released his third studio album titled Entasi (Intensity) on December 5, 2011. In the lead up to the album's release,...
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    Compared to later versions, the columns are much more massive, with a strong entasis or swelling, and wider capitals. The Temple of the Delians is a "peripteral"...
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    Entasis is a Danish architecture firm based in Copenhagen. It takens its name from the Greek word for tension. Entasis was founded by Christian and Signe...
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    fluting. The shaft is wider at the bottom than at the top, because its entasis, beginning a third of the way up, imperceptibly makes the column slightly...
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    government agreed and construction work began in May 1920. Lutyens added entasis (curvature) but otherwise made minimal design alterations. The Cenotaph...
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    the court-martialed Admiral Keppel, a close friend of Rockingham. Its entasis visibly bulges owing to an adjustment in its height, made when funding...
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    designed in one piece with a taper (typically a steel taper or a Greek entasis taper), or be made from multiple pieces to make them able to expand. In...
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    of 39.44 x 16.91 m; each Doric column has twenty grooves and a slight entasis, and is surmounted by an architrave with triglyphs and metopes; also perfectly...
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    ISBN 0-553-07134-3. Gigliotti, Gilbert, editor. Ava Gardner: Touches of Venus. Entasis Press, 2010; ISBN 978-0-9800999-5-9. Grobel, Lawrence (2014). Conversations...
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  • bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entasis The application of a convex curve to a surface for aesthetic purposes....
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    designed in one piece with a taper (typically a steel taper or a Greek entasis taper), or be made from multiple pieces to make them able to expand. In...
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    stone or metal pins. The design of most classical columns incorporates entasis (the inclusion of a slight outward curve in the sides) plus a reduction...
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  • unpredictability creates, is a state of entasis. (The opposite of entasis is stasis or staticness.) In normal human speech, Entasis is brought about by the flow...
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    curvature of the stylobate, the taper of the naos walls, and the entasis of the columns". Entasis refers to the slight swelling, of 4 centimetres (1.6 in), in...
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  • (1897) Piano Trio No. 2 (1911) Piano Trio No. 3 (1951) Santa Ratniece entasis (2021) Elizabeth Raum Rondo Variations for piano, violin, and double bass...
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    Corfu, Greece Genres Pop, Indie pop Years active 1993-2014 Labels Anousia Entasi Wipeout Records EMI Inner Ear Members Pantelis Dimitriadis Alexandros Makris...
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    from the government's Culture Recovery Fund. It visibly bulges due to an entasis correction, which was rendered inappropriate when funding problems reduced...
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    of an order column; however, unlike it, a pilaster is usually devoid of entasis. Pilasters often appear on the sides of a door frame or window opening...
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  • Foreign music; rebroadcasting with Easy 97.2 from Athens 93.5 MHz Radio Entasi 93.5 1995 Student station from the Technical University of Crete 93.8 MHz...
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    constructed in ashlar isodomic masonry. The east porch doesn't exhibit any entasis, but the stylobate is curved. The naos is apparently divided in two, with...
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    that each column appears to have a slight swelling, called entasis below the middle. The entasis is never sufficiently pronounced as to make the swelling...
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    typical of the period, with massive colonnades having a very pronounced entasis (widening as they go down), and very wide capitals resembling upturned...
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    completely absent. Gable and eave curves are gentler than in China and columnar entasis (convexity at the center) limited. The roof is the most visually impressive...
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  • diatonic, ditone, dodecatonic, dystonia, ectasia, enneatonic, entasia, entasis, epitasis, hemitonia, hemitonic, heptatonic, hexatonic, hyperisotonic,...
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    completely absent. Gable and eave curves are gentler than in China and columnar entasis (convexity at the center) limited. The roof is the most visually impressive...
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    top and wider at the bottom to create the illusion of greater height (entasis), the Minoan columns are smaller at the bottom and wider at the top, a...
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    sarcophagus and an altar. The feature was designed using the principle of entasis. The subtle curves in the design, if extended, would form a sphere 1,801 feet...
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    The Chūmon (Inner Gate) with its entasis columns...
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