Column /(?)/

Col·umn

Column

A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. (Arch.)
Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendôme; the spinal column.
A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy. (Mil.)
A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from “line”, where they are side by side. (Naut.)
A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper. (Print.)
A perpendicular line of figures. (Arith.)
The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids. (Bot.)
one of a series of articles written in a periodical, usually under the same title and at regular intervals; it may be written and signed by one or more authors, or may appear pseudonymously or anonymously, as an editorial column. (Print.)

Attached column: See under Attach, v. t.
Clustered column: See under Cluster, v. t.
Column rule: a thin strip of brass separating columns of type in the form, and making a line between them in printing.