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  2. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    A small, most often dome-like, structure on top of a building. Cyma A projecting moulding whose edge forms an S-curve. The two major types of cyma are the cyma recta, in which the upper curve is concave, and the cyma reversa (also known as the ogee), in which the lower curve is concave. [22] Cyrto-style A circular projecting portico with ...

  3. Dome - Wikipedia

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    Dome of the Church of the Assumption in Carcaixent. The word "cupola" is another word for "dome", and is usually used for a small dome upon a roof or turret. [9] "Cupola" has also been used to describe the inner side of a dome. [10] [ab] The top of a dome is the "crown".

  4. Mnemonic major system - Wikipedia

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    The link is to the sound, not the letter. (For example, the letters C in "cat", "Cynthia", and "cello" each have different values in the system – 7, 0, and 6, respectively.) Vowels, semivowels and the consonant /h/ are ignored. These can be used as "fillers" to make sensible words from the resulting consonant sequences. A standard mapping [2] is:

  5. List of largest domes - Wikipedia

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    25.6 83.99 Dome of Soltaniyeh: Soltaniyeh, Iran Persian architects were building double shell domes at the start of the 5th century, but the Dome of Soltaniyeh is the earliest such architecture extant, dating to 1312, over 100 years before Brunelleschi used the same technique to build the dome of Florence Cathedral. This makes the Dome of ...

  6. Christ Pantocrator - Wikipedia

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    Christ Pantocrator mosaic in Byzantine style from the Cefalù Cathedral, Sicily. The most common translation of Pantocrator is "Almighty" or "All-powerful". In this understanding, Pantokrator is a compound word formed from the Greek words πᾶς, pas (GEN παντός pantos), i.e. "all" [4] and κράτος, kratos, i.e. "strength", "might", "power". [5]

  7. Western Wall - Wikipedia

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    Panorama of the Western Wall with the Dome of the Rock (left) and al-Aqsa mosque (right) in the background The Western Wall and Dome of the Rock Prayer section vs. entire wall The term Western Wall commonly refers to a 187-foot (57 m) exposed section of a much longer retaining wall, built by Herod on the western flank of the Temple Mount .

  8. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    Gable (ridged, dual-pitched, peaked, saddle, pack-saddle, saddleback, [5] span roof [6]): A simple roof design shaped like an inverted V. Cross gabled: The result of joining two or more gabled roof sections together, forming a T or L shape for the simplest forms, or any number of more complex shapes.

  9. Dome (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Ice domes, a dome of ice, an ice surface located in the accumulation zone; Lava dome, a mound-shaped growth resulting from the eruption of high-silica lava from a volcano; Lunar dome, a type of shield volcano found on the surface of the Earth's moon; Resurgent dome, a volcanic dome that is swelling or rising due to movement in the magma chamber