Cupola

//ˈkupələ//

"Cupola" in a Sentence (11 examples)

This is Africa's Sahara Desert, as seen from the International Space Station's new seven-windowed cupola.

Dutch barns, for instance, had gable roofs — and often a cupola for ventilation.

Over the grand staircase are a fine coffered ceiling and another in the form of a cupola.

The magnificent octagonal Baptistery is said to have been originally a Temple of Apollo, and the eight monolithic columns that support the modern cupola are of the Roman period.

the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.

The stations on the City & South London were small but pretty, with cupolas to accommodate the winding gear of the small and claustrophobic hydraulic lifts.

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

Cast iron produced in a cupola possesses the following advantages : The cost of melting is low. The control of chemical composition is better. Temperature control is easier. Molten metals can be tapped from the cupola at regular intervals.

the posterior cupola of the cartilaginous nasal capsule

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

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The cupola of the lung is mostly medial and posterior to the vein as it begins to course deeper into the thorax (Fig. 5.7).

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