Column (disambiguation)
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Column
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. For the purpose of wind or earthquake engineering, columns may be designed to resist lateral forces...

is a vertical structural element in architecture.

Column may also refer to:
  • Column (botany)
    Column (botany)
    The column, or technically the gynostemium, is a reproductive structure that can be found in several plant families: Aristolochiaceae, Orchidaceae, and Stylidiaceae....

     or gynostemium, a part of an orchid
  • Column (database)
    Column (database)
    In the context of a relational database table, a column is a set of data values of a particular simple type, one for each row of the table. The columns provide the structure according to which the rows are composed....

    , a set of data values of a particular type in a relational database
  • Column (formation)
    Column (formation)
    A military column is a formation of soldiers marching together in one or more files in which the file is significantly longer than the width of ranks in the formation...

    , a military formation
  • Columns (juggling)
    Columns (juggling)
    Columns,also known as One-up Two-up, is a juggling trick where the balls are thrown upwards without any sideways motion. The simplest version involves having three balls, with two going up simultaneously on either side, followed by one going up in the middle...

    , a juggling pattern
  • Column (periodical), a recurring piece or article written by a columnist
    Columnist
    A columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs....

  • Column (typography)
    Column (typography)
    In typography, a column is one or more vertical blocks of content positioned on a page, separated by gutters and/or rules. Columns are most commonly used to break up large bodies of text that cannot fit in a single block of text on a page. Additionally, columns are used to improve page composition...

    , a vertical block of text positioned on a page
  • Column vector, an n × 1 matrix in linear algebra
    Linear algebra
    Linear algebra is a branch of mathematics that studies vector spaces, also called linear spaces, along with linear functions that input one vector and output another. Such functions are called linear maps and can be represented by matrices if a basis is given. Thus matrix theory is often...

  • Columns (video game)
    Columns (video game)
    is a puzzle video game, first created in 1989 by Jay Geertsen. Early versions of the game were made and ported among early computer platforms, and then the Atari ST, until 1990, when Jay Geertsen sold the rights to Sega, where it was ported to several Sega consoles.-Description:The game takes...

    , a Tetris-style video game
  • "Columns" (How I Met Your Mother), a 2007 episode of How I Met Your Mother

See also

  • Cortical column
    Cortical column
    A cortical column, also called hypercolumn or sometimes cortical module, is a group of neurons in the brain cortex which can be successively penetrated by a probe inserted perpendicularly to the cortical surface, and which have nearly identical receptive fields...

    , a group of neurons in the brain cortex
  • Vertebral column
    Vertebral column
    In human anatomy, the vertebral column is a column usually consisting of 24 articulating vertebrae, and 9 fused vertebrae in the sacrum and the coccyx. It is situated in the dorsal aspect of the torso, separated by intervertebral discs...

    , a column of vertebrae situated in the dorsal aspect of the abdomen
  • Packed bed
    Packed bed
    In chemical processing, a packed bed is a hollow tube, pipe, or other vessel that is filled with a packing material. The packing can be randomly filled with small objects like Raschig rings or else it can be a specifically designed structured packing...

     column, an apparatus used in column chromatography, absorption, scrubbing and distillation
  • Column-based nucleic acid purification
    Column-based nucleic acid purification
    Column-based nucleic acid purification is a solid phase extraction method to quickly purify nucleic acids.This method relies on the fact that the nucleic acid may bind to the solid phase depending on the pH and the salt content of the buffer, which may be a Tris-EDTA buffer or Phosphate buffer...

  • Miller Columns
    Miller Columns
    Miller columns are a browsing/visualization technique that can be applied to tree structures. The columns allow multiple levels of the hierarchy to be open at once, and provide a visual representation of the current location. It is closely related to techniques used earlier in the Smalltalk...

     the data tree structure visualization technique
  • Row (disambiguation)
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