Calotte
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Calotte may refer to:
- Calotte (architecture), a round cavity or depression in architecture, in the form of a cup or cap, lathed and plastered; used to diminish the rise or elevation of a moderate chapel, cabinet, alcove, etc., which, without such an expedient, would be too high for other pieces of the apartment. It takes its name from:
- Calotte or zucchettoZucchettoThe zucchetto , a/k/a pileolus in Latin and calotte/calotta in France, Italy and Hispanic nations, is a small skullcap worn by clerics of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as in Anglicanism....
, a plain skull cap, specifically those worn by ecclesiastics- Calotte (Belgium)Calotte (Belgium)The calotte , is a skullcap worn by students at catholic universities in Belgium. It originates from the skullcap worn by the Papal Zouave regiment around 1860....
, use among students at Belgian catholic universities as a student cap
- Calotte (Belgium)
- Calotte or space-filling modelSpace-filling modelIn chemistry a space-filling model, also known as calotte model, is a type of three-dimensional molecular model where the atoms are represented by spheres whose radii are proportional to the radii of the atoms and whose center-to-center distances are proportional to the distances between the atomic...
used in molecule modelling - Calotte (anatomy), the term used in anatomyAnatomyAnatomy is a branch of biology and medicine that is the consideration of the structure of living things. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy , and plant anatomy...
to refer to the upper (superior) and lower (inferior) halves of the globe of the eyeHuman eyeThe human eye is an organ which reacts to light for several purposes. As a conscious sense organ, the eye allows vision. Rod and cone cells in the retina allow conscious light perception and vision including color differentiation and the perception of depth... - Calotte (anatomy), the term may also refer to the most superior and thickest portion of the skull, which may persist as a bony remnant of the skull for the longest time