Translation for "semicúpulas" to english
Semicúpulas
Translation examples
Sostenida por ocho columnas de mármol y granito, y de ocho lados, la cúpula descansaba sobre un cuadrado con semicúpulas en cada esquina.
Supported by eight piers of marble and granite, displaying eight sides, the dome rested atop a square with semi-domes on each corner.
half-domes
Dentro del pórtico, una gran lámpara colgaba de la semicúpula;
Within the portico a large lamp hung from the half-dome;
Otras dos semicúpulas más bajas la apuntalaban de este a oeste, al tiempo que unas bóvedas menores se extendían a cada lado, como sirvientes de una reina, y ampliaban la gigantesca estructura.
Other lower half domes buttressed it to the east and west, while additional cupolas spread out to either side like attendants to a queen, expanding the breadth of the massive structure.
Durante 1.000 años, el peso de la cúpula se ha distribuido entre tantos muros interiores reforzados, semicúpulas adicionales, arbotantes, pechinas y enormes pilares esquineros que el ingeniero civil turco Mete Sözen cree que ni siquiera un gran terremoto podría hacerla caer fácilmente.
Over a thousand years, the dome’s weight has been further distributed among so many redoubled interior walls, additional half-domes, flying buttresses, pendentives, and massive corner piers that Turkish civil engineer Mete Sözen believes that not even a major earthquake would easily shake it loose.
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