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dome - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'dome' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Dome [ n.]
- A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.
- A cupola formed on a large scale.
- Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
- A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
- Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.