as|tro|dome

as|tro|dome
as|tro|dome «AS truh dohm», noun.
1. a very large enclosed area, especially one under a plastic dome: »

But maybe in a couple of hundred years' time sailing will take place in gigantic “astrodomes,” a hundred times larger than the Houston model (London Times).

2. a dome of transparent plastic on the top of an aircraft, through which a navigator takes observations of the stars.

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