domical

They support a gently domical, 80-foot-high, 4.4-acre expanse of translucent, milky-white fabric membrane covered in polytetrafluoroethylene — Teflon, by any other name — with two 500-ton panels that can open or close over a 250-by-250-foot opening to the sky.

Bramante emphasized the domical or Byzantine type.

"Out there on the desert�just the dunes, me and my feet," mused Telly Savalas, domical Big Daddy of TV's Kojak series.

To resist the thrust, the walls across the aisles were built up to the roof, and had external buttresses, the diagonal ribs instead of following the elliptical curve which the intersection of the Roman semicircular barrel vault gave to the groin, were made semicircular, so that the web or vaulting surface which rested on these ribs rose upwards towards the centre of the bay, giving a distinct domical form to the vault.

Domical Vaulting.—Vaulting in which a series of small domes are employed; in contradistinction to a waggon-head vault, or an intersecting vault.