Elliptical dome, the Glossary
An elliptical dome, or an oval dome, is a dome whose bottom cross-section takes the form of an ellipse.[1]
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74 relations: Andalusia, Architecture, Asheville, North Carolina, Australia, Austria, Bangalore, Barcelona, Basilica of St. Lawrence, Asheville, Beehive house, Beehive tomb, Bluffton, South Carolina, Cairo, Cartesian coordinate system, Casale Monferrato, Catenary arch, Church of Saint Roch, Žižkov, City of Sydney, Clochán, Cross section (geometry), Cupola, Czech Republic, Dome, Ellipse, Ellipsoid, Focus (geometry), Geodesic dome, Great circle, Hexagon, Indiana, Indiana Theatre (Indianapolis), Indianapolis, Italy, Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, Lech (Vorarlberg), Mathematics, Mayflower Hotel, Mosque, Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba, North Carolina, Oakland, California, Onion dome, Palau Nacional, Parabolic arch, Pendentive, Pentagon, Piedmont, Pisa, Pisa Cathedral, Prague, ... Expand index (24 more) »
Andalusia
Andalusia (Andalucía) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain.
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Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.
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Asheville, North Carolina
Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
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Bangalore
Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
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Barcelona
Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.
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Basilica of St. Lawrence, Asheville
The Minor Basilica of St.
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Beehive house
A beehive house is a building made from a circle of stones topped with a domed roof.
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Beehive tomb
A beehive tomb, also known as a tholos tomb (plural tholoi; from Greek θολωτός τάφος, θολωτοί τάφοι, "domed tombs"), is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by corbelling, the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones.
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Bluffton, South Carolina
Bluffton is a town in southern Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States.
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Cairo
Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.
Cartesian coordinate system
In geometry, a Cartesian coordinate system in a plane is a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely by a pair of real numbers called coordinates, which are the signed distances to the point from two fixed perpendicular oriented lines, called coordinate lines, coordinate axes or just axes (plural of axis) of the system.
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Casale Monferrato
Casale Monferrato is a town in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, in the province of Alessandria.
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Catenary arch
A catenary arch is a type of architectural arch that follows an inverted catenary curve.
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Church of Saint Roch, Žižkov
The Church of Saint Roch, located on Olšany Square (Czech: Olšanské náměstí), is the oldest church in present-day Žižkov, a cadastral district of Prague, Czech Republic.
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City of Sydney
The City of Sydney is the local government area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Clochán
A clochán (plural clocháin) or beehive hut is a dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, commonly associated with the south-western Irish seaboard.
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Cross section (geometry)
In geometry and science, a cross section is the non-empty intersection of a solid body in three-dimensional space with a plane, or the analog in higher-dimensional spaces.
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Cupola
In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Elliptical dome and cupola are domes.
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
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Dome
A dome is an architectural element similar to the hollow upper half of a sphere. Elliptical dome and dome are architectural elements and domes.
Ellipse
In mathematics, an ellipse is a plane curve surrounding two focal points, such that for all points on the curve, the sum of the two distances to the focal points is a constant.
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Ellipsoid
An ellipsoid is a surface that can be obtained from a sphere by deforming it by means of directional scalings, or more generally, of an affine transformation.
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Focus (geometry)
In geometry, focuses or foci (focus) are special points with reference to which any of a variety of curves is constructed.
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Geodesic dome
A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron.
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Great circle
In mathematics, a great circle or orthodrome is the circular intersection of a sphere and a plane passing through the sphere's center point.
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Hexagon
In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek ἕξ, hex, meaning "six", and γωνία, gonía, meaning "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon.
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Indiana
Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Indiana Theatre (Indianapolis)
The Indiana Theatre is a multiple use performing arts venue located at 140 W. Washington Street in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis, colloquially known as Indy, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Joe and Rika Mansueto Library
The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library is a storage library of the University of Chicago Library It has a capacity of 3.5 million volumes under an elliptical dome.
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Kanteerava Indoor Stadium
Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, also known as the Sree or Sri Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, is an indoor sporting arena located in Bangalore, India, near Cubbon Park.
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Lech (Vorarlberg)
Lech am Arlberg is a mountain village and an exclusive ski resort in the Bludenz district in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg, on the banks of the river Lech.
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Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.
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Mayflower Hotel
The Mayflower Hotel is a historic hotel in downtown Washington, D.C., located on Connecticut Avenue NW.
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Mosque
A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.
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Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba
The Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba (Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba), officially known by its ecclesiastical name of Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption (Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción), is the cathedral of the Diocese of Córdoba dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and located in the Spanish region of Andalusia.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Oakland, California
Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.
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Onion dome
An onion dome is a dome whose shape resembles an onion. Elliptical dome and onion dome are architectural elements and domes.
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Palau Nacional
The Palau Nacional (Catalan for 'National Palace') is a building on the hill of Montjuïc in Barcelona. It was the main site of the 1929 International Exhibition. It was designed by Eugenio Cendoya and Enric Catà under the supervision of Pere Domènech i Roura.Roig (1995) p.
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Parabolic arch
A parabolic arch is an arch in the shape of a parabola.
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Pendentive
In architecture, a pendentive is a constructional device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or of an elliptical dome over a rectangular room.
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Pentagon
In geometry, a pentagon is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon.
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Piedmont
Piedmont (Piemonte,; Piemont), located in northwest Italy, is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
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Pisa
Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.
Pisa Cathedral
Pisa Cathedral (Cattedrale Metropolitana Primaziale di Santa Maria Assunta; Duomo di Pisa) is a medieval Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, Italy, the oldest of the three structures in the plaza followed by the Pisa Baptistry and the Campanile known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
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Prague
Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.
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Province of Alessandria
The province of Alessandria (provincia di Alessandria; provincia ëd Lissandria; in Piedmontese of Alessandria: provinsa ëd Lissändria) is an Italian province, with a population of some 425,000, which forms the southeastern part of the region of Piedmont.
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Rectangle
In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles.
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Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
Rose Hill Plantation House
Rose Hill Plantation House (sometimes Rose Hill Mansion) is an historic Carpenter Gothic house located on US 278 in Bluffton, Beaufort County, South Carolina.
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San Filippo Neri, Turin
San Filippo Neri is a late-Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located in Turin, region of Piedmont, Italy.
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Sanctuary of Vicoforte
The Santuario di Vicoforte (also known as Santuario Regina Montis Regalis) is a monumental church located in the commune of Vicoforte, province of Cuneo, Piedmont, northern Italy.
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Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia
Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia (Saint Andrew on Via Flaminia) is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Andrew the Apostle in Rome, Italy.
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Santa Caterina, Casale Monferrato
Santa Caterina is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Piazza Castello #36, in Casale Monferrato, Province of Alessandria, region of Piedmont, Italy.
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Seville Cathedral
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See (Catedral de Santa María de la Sede), better known as Seville Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral and former mosque in Seville, Andalusia, Spain.
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Shape
A shape is a graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.
Skyspace Lech
The Skyspace Lech is a walk-in art installation by James Turrell in Tannegg/Oberlech in Vorarlberg (Austria).
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Spherical cap
In geometry, a spherical cap or spherical dome is a portion of a sphere or of a ball cut off by a plane.
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St. Peter's Basilica
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican (Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply Saint Peter's Basilica (Basilica Sancti Petri; Basilica di San Pietro), is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy.
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State Savings Bank Building
The State Savings Bank Building is a heritage-listed large bank building and commercial offices situated at 48–50 Martin Place, in the Sydney central business district in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia.
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Swaminarayan Akshardham (New Jersey)
The BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham is a Hindu mandir (temple) built by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha in Robbinsville, New Jersey.
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Temple Sinai (Oakland, California)
Temple Sinai (officially the First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 2808 Summit Street (28th and Webster Streets) in Oakland, California, in the United States.
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Turin
Turin (Torino) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy.
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Vicoforte
Vicoforte is a comune in the Province of Cuneo in Italy.
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Vorarlberg
Vorarlberg (Vorarlbearg, Voralbärg, or Voraadelbearg) is the westernmost state (Land) of Austria.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Whispering gallery
The Whispering Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral, London A whispering gallery is usually a circular, hemispherical, elliptical or ellipsoidal enclosure, often beneath a dome or a vault, in which whispers can be heard clearly in other parts of the gallery.
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Wrocław
Wrocław (Breslau; also known by other names) is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptical_dome
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