Fluting (architecture)
（重定向自Fluted column）
![Spiral fluted columns in the Great Colonnade at Apamea in Syria](/Images/godic/202501/13/Apamea_Cardo3107.jpg")
Fluting in architecture is the shallow grooves running vertically along a surface.
The term typically refers to the grooves running on a column shaft or a pilaster, but need not necessarily be restricted to those two applications. If the hollowing out of material meets in a point, the point is called an arris.