Rotunda

Rotunda

Rotunda may refer to:
*Rotunda (architecture), any building with a circular ground plan, often covered by a dome
*Rotunda (script), a specific medieval blackletter script
*Pentagonal rotunda, a polyhedral solid formed from half an icosidodecahedron

Places:
*Rotunda of St. George, built as the "Tomb of Galerius" in Thessaloniki in 306 AD
*Rotunda Hospital, built as the "New Lying-In Hospital" in 1757 in Dublin, Ireland
*Rotunda Museum, museum of geology in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.
*The Rotunda (University of Virginia)
*The D'Alemberte Rotunda Florida State University, a structural and architectural pedagogue that is part of FSU's College of Law and center of its Village Green
*Rotunda (Birmingham), built as "The Rotunda" in 1964
*U.S. Capitol Rotunda, in Washington, D.C.
*The Rotunda (Baltimore), a mall located near Johns Hopkins University
*Rotunda, Olt, a commune in Olt County, Romania
*The Rotunda (Woolwich), a John Nash building in Woolwich, London, UK, affiliated to Firepower, the Royal Artillery museum
*The Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens, London, a now demolished but once fashionable social meeting place and function room

People
*Ronald Rotunda


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  • rotunda — see FENESTRA ROTUNDA …   Medical dictionary

  • rotunda — round building, 1680s, from It. rotonda, especially the Pantheon, from L. rotunda, fem. of rotundus round (see ROTUND (Cf. rotund)). Meaning circular hall or room within a building is from 1780 …   Etymology dictionary

  • rotunda — [rō tun′də] n. [It rotonda < L rotunda, fem. of rotundus: see ROTUND] a round building, hall, or room, esp. one with a dome …   English World dictionary

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