A dome is a feature of architecture that usually looks like the upper half of a sphere on top of a building.
2006-10-24 00:03:36
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answered by Gopalakrishnan 3
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A dome is a feature of architecture that usually looks like the upper half of a sphere on top of a building.
It is a feature that makes many religious and government buildings stand out, because if someone is speaking to others inside or under a dome, the voice sounds louder. Also a dome makes it easier to identify an important building, for example a temple or a palace.
2006-10-23 23:49:28
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answered by ☺♥? 6
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In architecture, a hemispherical structure evolved from the arch, forming a ceiling or roof. Domes first appeared on round huts and tombs in the ancient Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean in forms, such as solid mounds, adaptable only to the smallest buildings. The Romans introduced the large-scale masonry hemisphere. A dome exerts thrust all around its perimeter, and the earliest monumental examples (see Pantheon) required heavy supporting walls. Byzantine architects invented a technique for raising domes on piers, making the transition from a cubic base to the hemisphere by four pendentives. Bulbous or pointed domes were widely used in Islamic architecture. The design spread to Russia, where it gained great popularity in the form of the onion dome, a pointed, domelike roof structure. The modern geodesic dome, developed by R. Buckminster Fuller, is fabricated of lightweight triangular framing that distributes stresses within the structure itself.
2006-10-24 00:17:31
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answered by Basement Bob 6
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You're not talking about an anagram, are you? Did you capitalize the letters because each one stands for another word? Well, if you didn't, I say don't forget that "dome" has verb form too: "I watched in horror as the bubbles domed on the surface of the boiling pot, inches from spilling over."
2006-10-24 00:12:25
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answered by Nénuphar 4
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it means round built upper part stucture of a temple or monument
2006-10-24 03:23:57
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answered by anushree 2
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It is slang for your skull.
2006-10-23 23:48:18
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answered by Anonymous
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