Cupola

Quick meaning: Cupola is a noun meaning (architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.

Meaning

(architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.

More Meanings

1. (military, railroad) A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
2. (geology) An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
3. A type of furnace used for smelting.
4. (anatomy) A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.
5. A body of members of the Sicilian Mafia who make decisions and settle disputes.
6. (geometry) A solid formed by joining two polygons, one (the base) with twice as many edges as the other, by an alternating band of isosceles triangles and rectangles.
7. (railways, Canada, dated) a small viewing window in the top of the caboose for looking over the train, or the part of the caboose where one looks through this window.

Example Sentences

the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.

the posterior cupola of the cartilaginous nasal capsule

The cupola has a small cylindrical chimney-like bore that is lined with a refractory material.

From each anterior cupola there projects forwards the processus prenasalis lateralis inferior.

Word Forms

• cupolas
• cupolae

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dome, cupalo, cupula, tholos, bicupola, cupolarotunda.

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