Entablature, in Architecture, is that part of an order of a column over the capital; and comprehends the architrave, frieze, and cornice. Mr. Nicholson, author of The New Practical Builder, says, "In buildings upon magnificent scales, projections, similar to the entablatures just mentioned, art carried round the edifices, and, where the expenses are limited, along the front only: these projections are also termed entablatures." In this sense the term is applied by engineers to similar parts of the framing of machinery wherein architectural designs are introduced.