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- acoustical ceiling: A ceiling of acoustical tile or other sound-absorbing material.
- barrel ceiling: A ceiling of semicylindrical shape.
- beam ceiling: A ceiling, usually of wood, made in imitation of exposed floor beams with the flooring showing between. 2. The underside of a floor, showing the actual beams, and finished to form a ceiling.
- beamed ceiling: A ceiling in which the beams, cased or uncased, are a purposeful part of the design.
- camp ceiling: A ceiling in which the center is horizontal while a border slopes with the roof rafters.
- ceiling: The top interior finish of a room which hides the structure and support of the roof. Ceilings can be painted, stuccoed, carved, or covered with tin plate, gold, or sculpture.
- coelum: An “inner” ceiling. The earliest Roman buildings were covered only by an outer roof, the inside of which served as a ceiling; the inner ceiling later was developed to provide better protection against changes in temperature and weather.
- compartment ceiling: A ceiling divided into panels, which are usually surrounded by moldings.
- counter ceiling: A secondary ceiling interposed between the floor and ceiling of a room, to exclude sounds originating in the room above. A layer of sound-obstructing material or deafening, either mineral wool, sawdust, or the like, is sometimes spread over the upper surface of the counter ceiling to assist in opposing the transmission of sound.
- cove ceiling: A ceiling having a cove at the wall lines or elsewhere.
- coved ceiling: The upper side of a room which is so designed that coves, large in proportion to the extent of the ceiling, join the vertical wall with the flat part of the ceiling…
- cum ceiling: Also see camp ceiling.
- drop ceiling: A secondary ceiling formed to provide space for piping or ductwork, or to alter the proportions of a room. Also, dropped ceiling.
- dropped ceiling: A secondary ceiling formed to provide space for piping or ductwork, or to alter the proportions of a room.
- integrated ceiling: A suspended ceiling system incorporating acoustical, lighting, and air-handling components into a unified whole.
- lacunaria: The ceiling of the ambulatory around the cella of a temple, or of the portico.
- linear metal ceiling: A suspended ceiling system of narrow metal strips, usually incorporating modular lighting and air-handling components.
- louvered ceiling: A suspended ceiling of multicellular louvers for shielding the light sources mounted above it.
- luminous ceiling: A suspended ceiling of translucent panels for diffusing the light from luminaires mounted above it.
- metal ceiling: A ceiling covering constructed of stamped metal plates. Metal ceilings came in many patterns and colors, and were intended to imitate decorative plaster or wood ceilings; most often found in public (versus domestic) architecture.
- plafond: A ceiling, especially one of decorative character; flat or arched.
- platfond: Also see plafond.
- suspended ceiling: A celling suspended from an overhead floor or roof structure to provide space for pipes, ductwork, lighting fixtures, or other service equipment.
- tenjo: In traditional Japanese construction, a ceiling.
- tent ceiling: Also see camp ceiling.
- tent-ceiling: Camp ceiling: the inward-sagging curved form was frequently found in late 18th c. garden-buildings, especially those in Chinoiserie or oriental styles…
- t’ien hua: In Chinese architecture, a suspended ceiling in a temple, palace, or prosperous home; a wood ceiling to which two layers of paper are glued; the paper often carries a design which is decorated in color. 2. A general term for a ceiling.
- tin ceiling: A ceiling covering constructed of stamped metal plates. Metal ceilings came in many patterns and colors, and were intended to imitate decorative plaster or wood ceilings; most often found in public (versus domestic) architecture.
- tray ceiling: Under a gabled roof, a horizontal ceiling constructed part of the way up toward the ridge.
- wagon ceiling: A ceiling of semicylindrical shape, as a barrel vault.
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- ceiling medallion: An ornament located in the center of a ceiling; often lavishly decorated.
- centerpiece: An ornament located in the center of a ceiling; often lavishly decorated.
- medallion: A round or oval-shaped decorative device used in plastered ceilings but also used as an embellishment on the exterior of elaborate Baroque buildings.
- coffer: From Middle English, coffre, “box;” and Latin cophuinus, “basket.” A recessed box-like panel in a ceiling or vault; usually square but some-times octagonal or lozenge-shaped (see Fig. 63).
- coffered ceiling: Decoration on a ceiling formed by sometimes highly ornamented recessed panels.
- coffering: Decoration on a ceiling formed by sometimes highly ornamented recessed panels.
- lacunar: A coffer or coffering.
- attic tier: Part of the top of a dome.
- bandage: A strap, band, ring, or chain placed around a structure to secure and hold its parts together, as around the springing of a dome.
- baraban: In early Russian architecture, same as drum or a cylindrical or polygonal wall below a dome, often pierced with windows.
- calotte: Interior of a small dome, so called from a skullcap worn by the Roman Catholic priest.
- compound dome: A structure composed of multiple domes and vaults.
- cupola: A dome-shaped roof on a circular base, often set on the ridge of a roof [or tower].
- dome: A circular structure having a circular plan and usually the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions. 2. A square metal or fiberglass pan used in forming the ribs of a waffle slab, available in standard 19- and 30-inch (483- and 762-mm) widths and a variety of depths.
- domical: Pertaining to, resembling, or characterized by a dome, as a domical church.
- drum: Vertical, cylindrical lower part of a dome or cupola.
- flared dome: A dome whose lower edges flare outward to meet the walls below.
- geodesic dome: A steel dome having members which follow three principal sets of great circles intersecting at 60 degrees, subdividing the dome surface into a series of equilateral spherical triangles.
- Gothic dome: A structure supposed to be possible or conceivable; at once a true cupola and Gothic in structure and design. A true cupola could not exist in Gothic architecture. When, however, a vaulted compartment is much crowned-up, the rounded forms approach those of a dome in this sense.
- great circle: The circle of greatest diameter that can be drawn on a sphere.
- hemispherical dome: A dome that takes the shape of one-half of a sphere.
- interdome: The space between the inner and outer shells of a dome.
- kubba: A dome in a mosque. 2. A dome over a Muslim tomb.
- lantern: A small structure on a roof or dome with windows or openings for the admittance of light. 2. A light, usually over the entrance to an elevator on each floor of a multistory building that signals the approach of the elevator.
- lattice dome: A steel dome structure having members which follow the circles of latitude, and two sets of diagonals replacing the lines of longitude and forming a series of isosceles triangles.
- melon dome: A melon-like ribbed dome (either an exterior or interior dome), especially found in Islamic architecture.
- melon-dome: See dome.
- octagonal dome: A dome composed of eight curved sections.
- onion dome: A bulbuous, domelike roof terminating in a sharp point, used especially in Russian Orthodox church architecture to cover a cupola or tower.
- onion-dome: Pointed bulbous structure on top of a tower, resembling an onion, common in Central- and Eastern-European architecture as well as in The Netherlands. It is usually an ornamented top, made of a timber substructure covered with lead, copper, or tiles, and is not a true dome.
- Pantheon-dome: Internally coffered dome, with a low, plain, severe, segmental-sectioned exterior surrounded by rings of concentric steps, resembling that of the Roman Pantheon, much used in 18th and early 19th c. as part of the vocabulary of Neo-Classicism, not necessarily with an oculus.
- pendentive: A triangular segment of vaulting used to effect a transition at the angles from a square or polygon base to a dome above.
- pendentive dome: A spherical dome formed by removing four segments so that it merges with its pendentives and sits on a square plan.
- pointed dome: Any dome, usually acute, with a point at its peak.
- pumpkin dome: Also see melon dome.
- qubba: Also see kubba.
- radial dome: A dome built with steel or timber trusses arranged in a radial manner and connected by polygonal rings at various heights.
- sail-dome: See dome; vault.
- saucer dome: A dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with its center well below the springing line. A saucer dome is particularly sensitive to buckling under an external load.
- saucer-dome: A dome whose rise is much less than its radius.
- Schwedler dome: A steel dome having members which follow the lines of latitude and longitude, and a third set of diagonals completing the triangulation.
- semicircular dome: A dome in the shape of a half sphere.
- sheiya: In early Russian architecture, a drum having no windows, which supports a dome.
- square dome: Same as cloistered arch.
- squinch: An arch or corbeling built across the upper inside corner of a square tower to support the side of a superimposed octagonal structure.
- sringa: The dome of a Hindu temple in southern India.
- stepped dome: A dome composed of successively receding rings.
- stilted dome: A dome whose curve begins above the impost.
- subdome: A partial dome, often used to support a larger dome.
- tholobate: The circular substructure of a dome.
- turbeh: A domed tomb structure of the Mohammedans.
- Turkish dome: Also see onion dome.
- umbrella dome: Also see melon dome.
- vellar cupola: Dome like a sail-vault, i.e. with its diameter equal to the diagonal of the square from which it rises, the arched forms between the springing-lines creating an impression of a floating awning or sail billowing upwards. It is really a semicircular dome with four sides sliced off, coinciding with the sides of the square.
- whispering dome: A large dome or vault that reflects sounds (especially high frequencies) along a large concave surface so that even whispers may be heard some distance away.
- acoustical tile: Tile made in various sizes and textures from a soft, sound-absorbing material, as cork, mineral fiber, or glass fiber.
- cassoon: A sunken panel in ceiling or vault.
- ceiling cavity: The cavity formed by the ceiling, a plane of suspended luminaires, and the wall surfaces between these two planes.
- ceiling panels: Decoration on a ceiling formed by sometimes highly ornamented recessed panels.
- cross tee: A secondary member of the grid supporting a suspended ceiling system, usually a sheet-metal tee carried by the main runners.
- main runner: A principal member of the grid supporting a suspended ceiling system, usually a sheet-metal channel or tee suspended by hanger wires from the overhead structure.
- plaster ceiling panels: In a ceiling, panels made of plaster divided by ribs, often made of wood. Common in Prairie School buildings.
- scuttle: A hatchway or opening, equipped with a cover, and located in the ceiling.
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