cupolaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈkjuːpələ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈkupələ/
• (米国発音, dialectal) IPA: /ˈkjupəloʊ/ (see cupalo)

名詞

cupola (plural cupolas or cupolae)

1. (architecture) A dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:

     the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 101:

     The stations on the City & South London were small but pretty, with cupolas to accommodate the winding gear of the small and claustrophobic hydraulic lifts.

2. (military, railroad) A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.
3. (geology) An upward-projecting mass of plutonic rock extending from a larger batholith.
4. (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.
5. A type of furnace used for smelting.
   • 2008, Matthew Stein, When Technology Fails, →ISBN:

     The cupola has a small cylindrical chimney-like bore that is lined with a refractory material.

   • 2009, S.K. Garg, Comprehensive Workshop Technology, →ISBN, page 260:

     Cast iron produced in a cupola possesses the following advantages : The cost of melting is low. The control of chemical composition is better. Temperature control is easier. Molten metals can be tapped from the cupola at regular intervals.

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

   the posterior cupola of the cartilaginous nasal capsule

   • 1937, Sir Gavin De Beer, The Development of the Vertebrate Skull, page 180:

     From each anterior cupola there projects forwards the processus prenasalis lateralis inferior.

   • 2015, Charles E. Smith, Trauma Anesthesia, →ISBN, page 85:

     The cupola of the lung is mostly medial and posterior to the vein as it begins to course deeper into the thorax (Fig. 5.7).

7. (railways, Canada, dated) 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.
8. A body of members of the Sicilian Mafia who make decisions and settle disputes.

派生語

Further reading

• cupola on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

参照

アナグラム

• copula, coupla, pocula