Concursus

Japanese: concursus
Concursus

...A large central hall or central square in a station, airport, park, exhibition center, etc. for the purpose of people gathering and moving. The word comes from the Latin word concursus, which means a confluence or a crowd. It developed as a space that combines the functions of a waiting area leading to the ticket gates at a train station and a passageway connecting two platforms.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "concursus" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…人の集合,流動を目的として駅,空港,公園,博覧会場等に設けられる広い中央ホールないし中央広場。語源は合流,群集を意味するラテン語のコンクルススconcursus。鉄道駅の集改札口に至る待合がもつ滞留の場としての機能と,2ホーム間を結ぶ通路の機能をあわせもつ空間として発達した。…

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