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What does entasis mean?

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Noun
  1. (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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This entasis was surrounded by a row of leaves, again characterizing the ascending bundle as stems.
I have to use this entasis, because if you let the edges go straight, the frontal plane of the painting will shoot out at the corners.
This peculiarity is a convexity, or entasis, as it is called, on the inner faces.
The Ionic column, thus made of greater proportional height, had diminution and entasis like the Doric.
This is called the entasis of the spire, and belongs to the study of optics in architecture.
The entasis of this skyscraper, like that of a Doric column, leads to a new kind of propositional beauty, one worked out digitally.

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