lunette
Kelime Anlamı :

1. çekme halkası.
2. aylama.
3. hilâl şeklindeki aralık.
4. hilal şekilli aralık.
5. duvar veya kubbedeki hilâl şeklinde aralık.
6. ay tabya.
7. (isim) hilâl şeklindeki aralık.
8. hilal şelilli aralık.
9. ÇEKME HALKASI: Bir silahın kundağında veya bir römorkun okunda bulunan halka. Bu halka; silah veya römorku cer aracına bağlar. Bak. "primer mover".
10. hilal sekilli aralik.
Tanımlar :
1. see lunettes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. in fortification, a detached work with flanks, presenting a salient angle to the enemy, intended for the protection of avenues, bridges, and the curtains of fieldworks.
2. in farriery, a halfhorseshoe, having only the front.
3. A blinder for the eye of a horse.
4. in architecture
5. the aperture formed by the intersection of any vault by a vault of smaller dimensions; particularly, such an aperture in a vaulted ceiling for the admission of light. of this class are the upper lights of the naves of st. peter's at rome and st. paul's in london.
6. A small aperture or window, especially if curved or circular, in a roof.
7. in a glass-furnace, the flue connecting the fire-chamber and the pot-chamber.
8. A watch-crystal flattened in the center; also, a kind of concavo-convex lens for spectacles.
9. in archaeology, a crescent ornament made of thin gold and intended as a diadem or gorget, found in ancient tombs of various epochs.
10. A work of art of such a shape as to fill a lunette, especially a painting or panel of such shape: as, the lunettes of Correggio.
11. one of the two open loops of steel which constitute the guard of the ordinary fleuret or foil used in fencing.
12. in artillery, an iron ring at the end of the trail-plate of a gun-carriage, to be placed over the pintle-hook of the limber in limbering up.
13. in the roman catholic church, a crescent-shaped or circular case of crystal fitted into the monstrance for the purpose of receiving the consecrated host for solemn exposition.
14. the circular hole in a guillotine in which the neck of the condemned rests.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault
2. temporary fortification like a detached bastion
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