Lunette
[lu:'net]
Definition
(noun.) oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault.
(noun.) temporary fortification like a detached bastion.
Checker: Roland--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.
(n.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge.
(n.) A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.
(n.) A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
(n.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.
(n.) An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
Checker: Mario
Examples
- Even these great instruments have now been excelled in the Grande Lunette, of the Paris Exposition, in 1900. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The great Lunette, see Fig. 195, changes entirely the method of manipulating the telescope, and also, in a measure, its principle of action, so as to avoid some of these difficulties. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I could have exulted to burst on his vision, confront and confound his lunettes, one blaze of acquirements. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Editor: Rufus