CAPITAL

, in Architecture, the uppermost part of a column or pilaster, serving as a head or crowning to it; being placed immediately over the shaft, and under the entablature. It is made differently in the different orders, and is that indeed which chiefly distinguishes the orders themselves.

Capital of a Bastion, is an imaginary line dividing any work into two equal and similar parts; or a line drawn from the angle of the polygon to the point of the bastion, or from the point of the bastion to the middle of the gorge.