, or Little Measure, in Architecture, a certain measure, taken at pleasure, for regulating the proportions of columns, and the symmetry or distribu- tion of the whole building. Architects <*>ually choose the diameter, or the semidiameter, of the bottom of the column, for their Module; which they subdivide into minutes; for estimating all the other parts of the building by.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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