Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet DOME

Definition av DOME

1. (arkitektur) kupolvalv, kupol

Exempel på hur man kan använda DOME i en mening

• Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres.
• The summit, which is the collapsed dome of an ancient volcano, features the ruins of an observatory which was continuously staffed between 1883 and 1904.
• 557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake, which cracks the dome of Hagia Sophia.
• 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction.
• Ymir's skull was held by four dwarfs, Nordri, Sudri, Austri, and Vestri, who represent the four points on the compass and became the dome of heaven.
• Michelangelo transformed the plan so that the Western end was finished to his design, as was the dome, with some modification, after his death.
• The Spindletop dome was derived from the Louann Salt evaporite layer of the Jurassic geologic period.
• The new Hagia Sophia (cost: 20,000 pounds of gold), with its numerous chapels and shrines, octagonal dome and mosaics, becomes the centre and most visible monument of Eastern Orthodoxy.
• The Millennium Dome was the original name of the large dome-shaped building on the Greenwich Peninsula in South East London, England, which housed a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium.
• Batholiths are almost always made mostly of felsic or intermediate rock types, such as granite, quartz monzonite, or diorite (see also granite dome).
• It used new materials, particularly Roman concrete, and newer technologies such as the arch and the dome to make buildings that were typically strong and well engineered.
• Just as the sphere has at every point a positively curved geometry of a dome the whole pseudosphere has at every point the negatively curved geometry of a saddle.
• Diaphragm (birth control), a small rubber dome placed in the vagina to wall off the cervix, thus preventing sperm from entering.
• A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron.
• The exterior is understated, but the interior is surprisingly elaborate, including a stained glass dome over a mosaic tile floor.
• State contractors later acquired gold from Lumpkin County to gild the dome of the current state capitol building in Atlanta.
• Its dome, surrounded by the spires of Wren's City churches, has dominated the skyline for over 300 years.
• Citronelle developed on what is known as the Citronelle Dome, a salt dome formation that is still rising, as shown by the radial drainage of streams away from the center.
• In June 2011, most of the town was evacuated due to a nearby wildfire some stayed and met with each other alongside residents of Eagar in the round valley dome.

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