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1.NounThe rounded east end of a church that contains or is behind the altar."Our private tour of the cathedral even allowed us to walk through the apse, which most tours don't."
2.NounThe interior portion of this section of the church building, excluding the ambulatory and any apse chapels.
3.NounA semicircular projection from any building that is similar to a church's apse."The college has an apse that once held a small chapel."
4.NounThe bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
5.NounA reliquary: a case in which the relics of saints are kept.
6.NounObsolete form of apsis (“the nearest and furthest points to the centre of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit”).
7.NounAn aspen tree.