cupola
IPA: kʌpˈoʊɫʌ
noun
- (architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
- (military, railroad) A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
- (geology) An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
- (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.
- A type of furnace used for smelting.
- (anatomy) A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.
- (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.
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Examples of "cupola" in Sentences
- The roof of the cupola is dome shaped.
- Central at the top of the stand is a hexagonal cupola.
- Riding in the cupola of the caboose cost an extra dollar.
- Then it struck the cupola of the church, lighting it brilliantly.
- The fresco in the cupola represents the 'Coronation of Our Lady'.
- The church was destroyed, the crowd cheering when the cupola fell.
- The commander's cupola is located on the left of the top of the turret.
- The large clock in the cupola was the largest in the county at the time.
- He helped decorate the cupola of the Church in the Carthusian monastery.
- The remaining fraction of the cupola gas is exhausted from the cupola system.