cupola

Meanings

Plural: cupolae, cupolas

Noun

• a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting
• a roof in the form of a dome
• A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
• A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
• An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
• 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.
• A type of furnace used for smelting.
• A small cap over a structure that is shaped like a dome or inverted cup.
• a small viewing window in the top of the caboose for looking over the train, or the part of the caboose where one looks through this window.
• A body of members of the Sicilian Mafia who make decisions and settle disputes.