The majestic circular tiers of stone of the Theatre of Marcellus give you some idea of the huge edifice that the Emperor Augustus erected in 13 B.C..

The church of Santa Sofia is a circular Lombard edifice dating to c. 760, now modernized, of small proportions, and is one of the main examples of religious Lombard architecture.

They ate at public expense in the Tholos, a circular edifice constructed for them next to the boule house.

The Tholos at the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia is a circular building that was constructed between 380 and 360 BC.

Until the early 20th century, the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little showed above ground except portions of the retaining walls ; the so-called Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers ; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas ; the ruins of a circular structure ; some remains of late Roman fortifications ; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.

These giant circular halls, which were unofficially called hunger circuses due to the food shortages experienced in the 1980s, were constructed during the Ceaușescu era to act as produce markets and refectories, although most were left unfinished at the time of the Revolution.

Consequently, many systems of definitions are constructed according to the vicious circle principle in such a way that authors do not produce viciously circular definitions.

Three circular batteries, surrounded by earthworks, were constructed and other fortifications built across the southern reaches of town.

A circular building at the intersection of Radio Road and Bayview Drive was originally constructed as a " Boatel ", where boaters could dock, eat, and even sleep.

Often the chert nodule will be split in half to create two cherts with a flat circular face for use in walls constructed of lime.

Gebri crypt was built as a high circular structure, six meters high, which was constructed by stone and mortar.

Borobudur is constructed in such a way that it reveals various levels of terraces, showing intricate architecture that goes from being heavily ornamented with bas-reliefs to being plain in arupadhatu circular terraces.

Plato described a self-eating, circular being as the first living thing in the universe — an immortal, mythologically constructed entity.

The Advent wreath is constructed of evergreens to represent everlasting life brought through Jesus and the circular shape of the wreath represents God, with no beginning and no end.

Temples — build on elliptical, circular, quadrilateral, or apsidal plans — were constructed using brick and timber.

The temazcal is usually constructed from volcanic rock and cement and is usually a circular dome, although rectangular ones have been found at certain archeological sites and this shape is also used.

Included in the scheme were three much larger circular forts or redoubts that were constructed at Harwich, Dymchurch and Eastbourne ; they acted as supply depots for the smaller towers as well as being powerful fortifications in their own right.

The circular line through Dublin from Portobello to Ringsend, where large docks adjacent to the Liffey were constructed, was started in 1790 and opened in 1796.

Furthermore, a number of aspects of the generally circular nature of the ringfort highlight the defensive advantages, most notably that a circle as a shape " offered broad perspectives of approaching attackers and allowed the maximum area to be enclosed relative to the length of the bank constructed.

In the center of the dance floor was a circular light tree constructed on a hydraulic lift.

Toda temples are constructed in a circular pit lined with stones and are quite similar in appearance and construction to Toda huts.

" In A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, published in 1833, Samuel Lewis similarly wrote: " On the sea-shore, near the village, is a circular encampment, designated Castell Cadwgan, and supposed to have been constructed by Cadwgan ab Bleddyn, about 1148.

The S-II was constructed vertically to aid welding and keep the large circular sections in the correct shape.

Unlike a fragmentation grenade, stun grenades are constructed with a casing made to remain intact during detonation, containing most of its explosive force and avoiding shrapnel injuries, while having large circular cutouts to allow the light and sound of the explosion through.

The exterior of the large pavilion and lobby is circular and constructed of glass and metal supports to contrast with the solid geometric lines of the actual hall.

The term Deva + Naga + ri is constructed from a conjunction of deva " divinity " and nāga " serpent ", and that snakes often form a " circular " garland-like shape, refer Ourorboros, and are evident throughout Dharmic iconography as girdles, malas, garlands, torques, armbands, etc., as investiture of adornment are ' symbolic attributes ' ( Tibetan: phyag mtshan ).

Zodiacal light and the gegenschein give some evidence for such a dust blanket, a phenomenon also to be expected if the dust before capture is in circular orbits about the sun, as indicated by the trend of the smaller visible meteors.

The photoelectrons emitted from a circular segment of the cathode sphere are focused by the positive lens action of the two concentric spheres, pass through the ( negative ) lens formed by the anode aperture, and impinge upon the cathodoluminescent viewing screen.

For circular fibers in a closely packed hexagonal array, the packing efficiency is given by: Af where Af, and 0.906 is the ratio of the area of a circle to that of the circumscribed hexagon.

This measure is the ratio of the length of a circular arc by its radius.

Row n is shifted left circular by n-1 bytes.

If the resulting four kilobyte table size is too large for a given target platform, the table lookup operation can be performed with a single 256-entry 32-bit ( i. e. 1 kilobyte ) table by the use of circular rotates.

In historical times Greek maidens of Ephesus performed an annual circular dance with weapons and shields that had been established by Hippolyta and her Amazons.

There is, however, in the centre a circular basin occupied by Lake Tsana.

The best marked of the basins so formed ( the Congo basin ) occupies a circular area bisected by the equator, once probably the site of an inland sea.

Poseidon carved the mountain where his love dwelt into a palace and enclosed it with three circular moats of increasing width, varying from one to three stadia and separated by rings of land proportional in size.

Later versions of this form consisted of a flat plate, either square or circular, which is kept normal to the wind by a wind vane.

If a circular building is aerodynamically smooth, and cooler than the ground, it can be passively cooled by the " dome effect.

The quadrangle at the centre of Smirke's design proved to be a waste of valuable space and was filled at Panizzi's request by a circular Reading Room of cast iron, designed by Smirke's brother, Sydney Smirke.

In most common usage, the term is used for the approximately circular depression in the surface of a planet, moon or other solid body in the Solar System, formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller body with the surface.

Since craters are caused by explosions, they are nearly always circular – only very low-angle impacts cause significantly elliptical craters.

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.

From an " aspiration or desire ", the celestial spheres, imitate that purely intellectual activity as best they can, by uniform circular motion.

* The reinforce: This portion of the piece is frequently divided into a first reinforce and a second reinforce, but in any case is marked as separate from the chase by the presence of a narrow circular reinforce ring or band at its foremost end.

When timber was available, many were surrounded by a circle of wooden piles with axe-sharpened bases that were driven into the bottom, forming a circular enclosure that helped to retain the main mound and prevent erosion.

It also appears in the design of certain types of arches and as a cross section of the catenoid -- the shape assumed by a soap film bounded by two parallel circular rings.