Column

The word column (from the Latin column) designates various elements that usually have in common their elongated and vertical nature, such as:

Architecture

• Column is a high vertical support compared to its cross section.
• Commemorative column, a column erected with monumental or commemorative motives.

Typography

• Type column, a vertical block of text placed on a page.

Botany

• Column or ginostemo is a reproductive structure of orchids.

Christianity

• Column of the flogging where Jesus Christ received the scourges after his arrest.

Physics

• Water column It's a pressure measurement unit.
• Thermal column It's a hot air upstream.

Geology

• Column is a typical rock formation of the caves.
• Column disjunction is a structure formed by the cooling of lava or magma.
• Eruptive column is the gas jet that precedes a volcanic eruption.
• Stratigraphic column is the representation of the strats vertically overlapped in a field.

Computer Science

• Column of a database is a set of data of the same type.
• Column of a spreadsheet is a set of vertical alignment cells. Mind

Math

• Column of a matrix or a column vector

Medicine

• Spinal column is an articulated osteofibrocartilaginous structure that forms part of the skeleton.

Military

• Military column is a form of troop formation, and by extension, a military unit:
• Column Prada
• Handle Column
• Column Connolly
• Column of the Rosal
• Column PrestesBrazilian military political movement.

Music

• Air column is the volume of air that vibrates within a wind instrument.

Politics

• Fifth column, expression to refer to resistance movements.

Press

• Column is an opinion article on various topics, signed by a columnist.

Chemistry

• Column or tower is a facility used to perform certain processes.

Solidarity

• Column of the thousandin 2008 in solidarity with Western Sahara.

Freemasonry

• column (masonry)