What does "concameration" mean?

An arch or vault, especially a system of interconnecting vaults

What is a synonym for "concameration"?

Common synonyms include: apse, arcade, arch, archway, camber, circularity.

Concameration

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Noun

1
An arch or vault, especially a system of interconnecting vaults
"Once he looked at the vault above, but the entire concameration was completely and desolately empty of all save blackness and that westward-waning moon."
2
A chamber of a multilocular shell.
"impossible concamerations"

Synonyms

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apse arcade arch archway camber circularity

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"Once he looked at the vault above, but the entire concameration was completely and desolately empty of all save blackness and that westward-waning moon."

Etymology

Latin concameratio.

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