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column   (TTS Sound)

The noun column has 9 senses

• column -- (a line of units following one after another)


• column, chromatography column -- (a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands)


• column -- (a vertical array of numbers or other information; "he added a column of numbers")


• column, tower, pillar -- (anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower; "the test tube held a column of white powder"; "a tower of dust rose above the horizon"; "a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite")


• column, editorial, newspaper column -- (an article giving opinions or perspectives)


• column, pillar -- (a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument))


• column, pillar -- ((architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure)


• column -- (a page or text that is vertically divided; "the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject"; "the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns")


• column -- (any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body)