Geodesic Dome - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: geodesic domegeodesic dome
A domelike structure invented by R Buckminster Fuller in which straight structural parts are connected to form interlocking polygons affording great strength and rigidity combined with light weight The typical form has the outlines of the top half of an icosahedron with the triangular spaces filled with structural members forming triangles hexagons and squares...
Domed
Furnished with a dome shaped like a dome...
onion dome
A dome with a pointed top its width often extending beyond the width of the tower it covers a style of architecture characteristic of Russian Orthodox churches...
Dome, or Doom
Domboc. or Dombee [Sax.], dome-book....
Dome-book
Dome-book [liber judicialis, Lat.], a book composed under the direction of Alfred, for the general use of the whole kingdom, containing the local customs of the several provinces of the kingdom. This book is said to have been extant so late as the reign of Edward IV., but is now lost....
Brachydome
A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis See Dome...
Macrodome
A dome parallel to the longer lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal See Dome n 4...
Geodesic
Of or pertaining to geodesy geodetic...
Geodetic
Of or pertaining to geodesy obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy engaged in geodesy geodesic as geodetic surveying geodetic observers...
Clinodome
See under Dome...
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