Column (disambiguation) - Definition and Overview
In
architecture
, a
column
is a support structure.
In
botany
, a
column
(the
gynostemium
) is part of an
orchid
.
In
mathematics
,
column space
is a property of a
matrix
.
An
ammunition column
is a group of
military
vehicles in a division that carry
ammunition
.
Columns
is a
Tetris
-style
video game
.
In a
relational database
, a
column
consists of a set of
data
values of a particular
type
, one in each
row
of the table.
Similiarly, a
spreadsheet
has vertical
columns
placed horizontally in a 2-dimensional grid.
In
newspapers
and
magazines
(and
internet journalism
), a
column
is a recurring piece written by a
columnist
. This sense comes from newspapers' columnal arrangement of articles.
This is a
disambiguation
page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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