Cupola (disambiguation)
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Not to be confused with copula, a linguistic term with similar spelling.
Cupola, a diminutive of the Latin cupa (barrel) and thus meaning 'little barrel', is used for dome-shaped items, including:
- An architectural dome
- Cupola, a (usually) dome-shaped ornamental structure located on top of a larger roof or dome
- Cupola (geometry), a geometric solid
- Cupola (ISS), a proposed observation dome on the International Space Station
- Cupola furnace, a variety of small blast furnace used for melting pig iron or scrap for foundry purposes
- Reverberatory furnace for smelting some non-ferrous metals
- Cupola, a song by Zeromancer
- A small gun turret
- The observation area on top of a railway caboose
- Name for the Sicilian Mafia Commission
- An anatomical part of the thoracic diaphragm