A circular stone building surmounted by a pyramid rests on a lower platform, square.

The circular dome rests on pendentives decorated with circular medallions of Florentine ceramic.

The medal consists of a circular medallion, upon which rests an image of Admiral George Dewey, suspended from a blue and yellow ribbon.

The cylinder drum rises 11 meters and rests on a circular steel-reinforced-concrete ring on the top of the octagon.

He took a lead on the enemy, using a distance of five of the radii in his circular sight and then added another.

There is no external ear but the large circular eardrum lies on the surface of the head just behind the eye.

He shows how a satisfying argument for the validity of experience can be based neither on demonstration ( since " it implies no contradiction that the course of nature may change ") nor experience ( since that would be a circular argument ).

The polygonal walls of the acropolis may still be seen in a fair state of preservation on a circular hill standing about above the little plain of Exarcho ; one gateway remains, and there are also traces of town walls below.

There are several cairns and the remains of a circular British encampment on the mountain between Aberdare and Merthyr.

Approximately half-way from the Brandenburg Gate is the Großer Stern, a circular traffic island on which the Siegessäule ( Victory Column ) is situated.

The retractable stadium roof on Toronto's Roger's Centre used modified off-the-shelf train bogies on a circular rail.

These can be tiny and circular, such as found on the Nurse Shark ( Ginglymostoma cirratum ), to extended and slit-like, such as found on the Wobbegongs ( Orectolobidae ).

Likewise, a type collection might focus on an unusual design feature such as coins with a hole in the middle, coins that are not circular in shape or coins with brockage.

In prokaryotes, DNA is usually arranged as a loop, which is tightly coiled in on itself, sometimes accompanied by one or more smaller, circular DNA molecules called plasmids.

Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called " rocks ", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a circular target marked on the ice.

A circular, published on, gave the address of VCheka's first headquarters as " Petrograd, Gorokhovaya 2, 4th floor ".

On the top of the vent on the outside of the cannon is a flat circular space called the vent field where the charge is lit.

An example is to be found on the uninhabited island of Vementry on the north side of the West Mainland, where it appears that the cairn may have originally been circular and its distinctive heel shape added as a secondary development, a process repeated elsewhere in Shetland.

One shows Babylon on the Euphrates, surrounded by a circular landmass showing Assyria, Urartu and several cities, in turn surrounded by a " bitter river " ( Oceanus ), with seven islands arranged around it.

In particular, the circular convolution can be defined for periodic functions ( that is, functions on the circle ), and the discrete convolution can be defined for functions on the set of integers.

If F ( r ) represents gravity, it is a negative term proportional to 1 / r < sup > 2 </ sup >, so the net acceleration in r in the rotating frame depends on a difference of reciprocal square and reciprocal cube terms, which are in balance in a circular orbit but otherwise typically not.

The gravitational force acts on each object toward the other, which is toward the center of mass of the two objects ; for circular orbits, this center of gravity is the center of the circular orbits.

Upper panel: Ball on a banked circular track moving with constant speed v ; Lower panel: Forces on the ball.

The Australian Defence Force issues soldiers two tags of different shapes: Number 1 Tag ( the octagonal shaped disc ) and Number 2 Tag ( the circular disc ).

In the event of a casualty, the circular tag is removed from the body and the octagonal tag is placed inside the dead soldier ’ s mouth, between the teeth and lips.

The former Republic of Rhodesia used two WW2 British-style compressed asbestos fiber tags, a No. 1 octagonal ( green ) tag and a No. 2 circular ( red ) tag, stamped with identical information.

Constructed from large blocks of light-coloured stone, the tower was made up of three stages: a lower square section with a central core, a middle octagonal section, and, at the top, a circular section.

The circular tower at the north-west corner contains the octagonal dining room with a Minton tile floor, two fireplaces, and a vault of eight radial ribs running to a central boss.

The base pedestal was at least in diameter and either circular or octagonal.

Also from the Norman period is the circular chapter house of 1120, made octagonal on the outside when the walls were reinforced in the 14th century.

It is two stories high and has two large towers to the East and West, one circular the other ( slightly lower ) octagonal.

It is two stories high and has two large towers to the East and West, one circular the other ( slightly lower ) octagonal.

This layering of patterns produces octagonal, circular and semi-circular focal points and a series of small triangular parks scattered throughout the district.

Either end of the Gallery are rooms that are circular and octagonal in shape.

Centralized buildings of circular or octagonal plan also became used for baptistries and reliquaries due to the suitability of those shapes for assembly around a single object.

In mainland Greece, circular or octagonal drums became the most common while, in Constantinople, drums with twelve or fourteen sides were popular beginning in the 11th century.

Spaces of circular or octagonal plan were sometimes covered with vaults of a " double chevet " style, similar to the chevet apse vaulting in Gothic cathedrals.

It was the first ' octagonal ' dome in history to be built without a temporary wooden supporting frame: the Roman Pantheon, a circular dome, was built in 117 – 128 AD with support structures.

As early as the building of Constantine's churches in Palestine there were two chief types of plan in use: the basilican, or axial, type, represented by the basilica at the Holy Sepulchre, and the circular, or central, type, represented by the great octagonal church once at Antioch.

However it is famous for its central pillar, which has a square base and an octagonal shaft, both carved with bands of geometric and floral designs, further its thirty-six serpentine brackets support a circular platform for Akbar, which is connected to each corner of the building on the first floor, by four stone walkways.

Rondel means round or circular ; the dagger gets its name from its round ( or similarly shaped, e. g. octagonal ) hand guard and round or spherical pommel ( knob on the end of the grip ).

The minarets rest on square bases, have octagonal shafts which take on a circular shape as they reach the top.

They may be of various shapes, though most are circular, octagonal or rectangular.

From below, there is a series of smooth fillets ( the one on the left is a Roman-epoch and fragmentary epigraph with the letters AE PONT, while in the centre there is a mat decorated with dolphins and a Roman-age flower, probably coming from a sepulchral building ), then there is a median fillet with a series of six round arches supported, on the left side, by little circular columns and on the right side, by little octagonal columns.

Ottomans took on a circular or octagonal shape through the 19th century, with seating divided in the center by arms or a central, padded column that might hold a plant or statue.

Its central octagonal cupola is illuminated by picture windows in circular arcs.

The octagonal plan of the Lateran Baptistery, the first structure expressly built as a baptistry, provided a widely-followed model, which might be twelve-sided, or even circular as at Pisa.

Within the octagonal towers facing the moat there are circular gun-ports, with sighting slits above, for canon artillery.