What's the noun for columns? Here's the word you're looking for.
column
(architecture) A solidupright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
(by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.
Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
“The diffracted beam columniation depends on the variable detector distance from the fixed scattering volume.”
“So it is likely that this is actually a double star, a binary which is very close in separation that may be the mechanism that generates the columniation.”
“Lamp positions adjust for maximum columniation and optimum coverage.”
“Its most interesting feature was the profusion of not only the cut columellae of whelks, but the hundreds of small bits broken out of the anterior end of gigantic hard clams.”