COLUMN

noun see: hill Date: 15th century 1. a vertical arrangement of items printed or written on a page, one of two or more vertical sections of a printed page separated by a rule or blank space, an accumulation arranged vertically ; stack , one in a usually regular series of newspaper or magazine articles , a supporting pillar, 3. something resembling a ~ in form, position, or function , a tube or cylinder in which a chromatographic separation takes place, a long row (as of soldiers), one of the vertical lines of elements of a determinant or matrix, a statistical category or grouping , ~ed adjective