orthostates

[ awr-thos-tuh-teez ]

noun

, plural or·thos·ta·tai [awr-, thos, -t, uh, -tahy].

1. orthostat.

Example Sentences

This is unlikely because the floor level would then have been above the base of the orthostates.

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They are firmly founded on the rock and reach up nearly to the base of the orthostates.

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Thus the eastern cella, if it lay at the level of its porch strangely lacked interior orthostates in its north and south walls.

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The are interior walls on either side of a door which in the Erechtheum reached up only five courses above the orthostates.

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