Cupola vs. Turret

Cupolanoun

(architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.

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A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.

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(geology) An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.

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(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.

Cupolanoun

A type of furnace used for smelting.

Cupolanoun

(anatomy) A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.

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a small viewing window in the top of the caboose for looking over the train, or the the part of the caboose where one looks through this window.

Cupolanoun

A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.

Cupolanoun

A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.

Cupolanoun

A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, - used chiefly in foundries and steel works.

Cupolanoun

A revolving shot-proof turret for heavy ordnance.

Cupolanoun

The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.

Cupolanoun

a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting

Cupolanoun

a roof in the form of a dome

Cupola

In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome.The word derives, via Italian, from lower Latin cupula (classical Latin cupella from Greek κύπελλον kupellon) 'small cup' (Latin cupa) indicating a vault resembling an upside-down cup.

Turretnoun

(architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.

Turretnoun

A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

Turretnoun

(electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).

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(military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.

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(railroads) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.

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A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.

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A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

Turretnoun

A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.

Turretnoun

The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.

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a small tower extending above a building

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a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation

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a small tower on top of a larger tower or at the corner of a building or wall, typically of a castle

Turretnoun

a low armoured tower, typically one that revolves, for a gun and gunners in a ship, aircraft, fort, or tank.

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a rotating holder for tools, especially on a lathe.

Turret

In architecture, a turret (from Italian: torretta, little tower; Latin: turris, tower) is a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle. Turrets were used to provide a projecting defensive position allowing covering fire to the adjacent wall in the days of military fortification.