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vistadome

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vis⋅ta⋅dome

  [vis-tuh-dohm] Railroads.
Use vistadome in a Sentence
–noun
1. dome (def. 7).
–adjective
2. having a vistadome or having cars with vistadomes: a vistadome train.
Origin:
1945; vista + dome

dome

  [dohm] noun, verb, domed, dom⋅ing.
–noun
1. Architecture.
a. a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions.
b. a domical roof or ceiling.
c. a polygonal vault, ceiling, or roof.
2. any covering thought to resemble the hemispherical vault of a building or room: the great dome of the sky.
3. anything shaped like a hemisphere or inverted bowl.
4. (in a dam) a semidome having its convex surface toward the impounded water.
5. Crystallography. a form having planes that intersect the vertical axis and are parallel to one of the lateral axes.
6. Geology. upwarp.
7. Also called vistadome. Railroads. a raised, glass-enclosed section of the roof of a passenger car, placed over an elevated section of seats to afford passengers a full view of scenery.
8. Horology. an inner cover for the works of a watch, which snaps into the rim of the case.
9. a mountain peak having a rounded summit.
10. Slang. a person's head: I wish I could get the idea into that thick dome of yours.
–verb (used with object)
11. to cover with or as if with a dome.
12. to shape like a dome.
–verb (used without object)
13. to rise or swell as a dome.
Origin:
1505–15; < MF dome < It duomo < ML domus (Deī) house (of God), church; akin to timber

Related forms:
domelike, adjective
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Financial Dictionary

dome

In technical analysis, a chart formation indicating a market top and characterized by an upside-down U-shaped pattern. A dome is an example of a reversal pattern. Also called inverted saucer, rounded top.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: dome
Pronunciation: 'dOm
Function: noun
: a rounded-arch element in the wave tracing in an electroencephalogram domepattern characteristic of petit mal>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Science Dictionary
dome   (dōm)  Pronunciation Key 

  1. A circular or elliptical area of uplifted rock in which the rock dips gently away, in all directions, from a central point.

  2. A wedge-shaped mineral crystal that has two nonparallel, similarly inclined faces that intersect along a plane of symmetry.


The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
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