Dome (disambiguation)

A dome is a structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.

Dome may also refer to:

Architecture

• Geodesic dome
• Monolithic dome

Geology

• Dome (geology), a deformational feature consisting of symmetrically-dipping anticlines
  • Granite dome, a dome of granite, formed by exfoliation
  • Lava dome, a mound-shaped growth resulting from the eruption of high-silica lava from a volcano
  • Lunar dome, a type of shield volcano found on the surface of the Earth's moon
  • Resurgent dome, a volcanic dome that is swelling or rising due to movement in the magma chamber
  • Salt dome, formed when a thick bed of evaporite minerals (mainly salt, or halite) found at depth intrudes vertically into surrounding rock strata

Places

Arenas

• Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (1982), Minneapolis, Minnesota, also known as "The Dome" or "The Metrodome"
• Millennium Dome (1999), London also known as "The Dome"
• NRG Astrodome (1999), Houston, Texas, also known as the "Astrodome" or the "Houston Astrodome"
• Le Dôme de Marseille, France

Places

Antarctica

• Arctowski Dome
• Anderson Dome
• Bonnabeau Dome
• Dome A
• Dome C
• Dome F
• Law Dome
• Siege Dome
• Titan Dome

Asia

• Domé, one of the Tibetan names for the Amdo region

Canada

• Dome Mine, Ontario

United States

• Teapot Dome (also known as Teapot Rock), Wyoming

People

• Malcolm Dome (1955-2021), English music journalist
• Ram Chandra Dome (born 1959), Indian politician
• Dome (artist) (born 1975), German graffiti artist

Art, entertainment, and media

• Dome (band), a 1980s post punk band
  • Dome (album)
• Dome (1987), a science fiction novel by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry
• The Dome (periodical), a quarterly publication of the Victorian era, containing examples of contemporary literature, art and music
• Under the Dome (TV series), an American television series

Enterprises

• Dôme (coffeehouse), a chain of café restaurants based in Perth, Australia
• Dome (constructor), a Japanese-based racing car constructor
• Le Dôme, a garagiste wine label of Bordeaux wine producer Château Teyssier
• Le Dôme Café, historical Paris intellectual venue

Math, science, and technology

• Dome (mathematics), a closed geometrical surface which can be obtained by sectioning off a portion of a sphere with an intersecting plane
• DOME project, a computer architecture project for the Square Kilometre Array, designed by ASTRON and IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
• Norton's dome, a thought experiment concerning causality in Newtonian mechanics
• Dome, colloquial term for an overshooting top above a thunderstorm anvil cloud

Transportation

• Dome car, a type of railway passenger car
• Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center (MARTA station), a passenger rail station in Atlanta, Georgia named after the Georgia Dome
• Steam dome, a steam locomotive component

Other uses

• Teapot Dome scandal, Wyoming, United States
• Dome, slang for the upper half of the head or a bald head or a head
• Dome, slang for fellatio
• Iron Dome is a mobile air defense system
• Retroflex consonant, or "domal consonant"