Similar words: lapse, elapse, lapsed, synapse, elapsed, relapse, prolapse, collapse. Meaning: [æps] 
n. a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar.
n. a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar. 
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1. Standing in the huge apse, covered by a baldacchino, was the monument to Peter.
2. In the conch of the apse is a great cross within a circle and with a background of stars.
3. At the east end the main apse is decorated by two rows of free-standing columns.
4. The central, larger apse was used as a sanctuary and the choir was then moved westwards into the nave.
5. The eastern end of the church has an apse of Byzantine form, that is, semi-circular inside and polygonal outside.
6. The western apse is of about the year 1000 and the narthex is later.
7. The apse mosaics have a gold background and are of early type, being stiff and formal in design.
8. The tall apse windows give better illumination to the east end.
9. Quite by chance , an apse and some mosaic fragments were brought to light in 1891.
10. The only exception was an apse on the axis of the portico, demolished in the 1890s to be replaced by industrial sheds undistinguished in function and form.
11. In the left side, beginning with the apse, Argentina, Brasil, Chile and Mexico are represented.
12. Christian churches have usually been oriented with the apse or altar at the eastern end.
13. Inside, the transept opens behind a triumphal arch which frames the apse with its altar.
14. The east end is apsidal with a single polygonal apse.
15. The church is high and light so that the vista from narthex to eastern apse is clear and uninterrupted.
16. The Church of S. Servaas has a Romanesque east end with apse and twin towers.
17. It has twin west towers and gables with similar eastern towers flanking the apse.
18. At the east end is a rectangular choir and later apse.
19. The plan is that of a cross-domed basilica with nave, aisles,[sentencedict .com] eastern apse and western atrium.
20. Both nave arcade and clerestory windows continue uninterrupted, but in narrowing form, round the choir apse.
21. It is surrounded by buildings, the houses being built on to it at the eastern apse.
22. It is designed like a generic Roman basilica, with three aisles and an apse .
23. The Church is laid out in the typical Roman basilica design, with three aisles leading to a semicircular apse containing the altar.
24. The chapel is just the frosted glass walls and the frescoes on the dome and apse.
25. A similar rocky protrusion was noticed in the north apse.