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What is an oculus?

What is an oculus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye).
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At the top of the columns a concrete-on-steel deck platform forms the oculus of the interior dome.
At the centre of the dome is an oculus, a circular hole, which is the only source of light.
The oculus window will complement two large stained glass windows that have been installed in the third-floor ceiling.
What could have swayed Capponi away from the plan for an oculus and toward the tall, narrow shape employed by Marcillat?
The oculus windows depicted in each of their two cells illuminate the figures with an otherworldly silvery light.
The major interior space, the Potomac rotunda, balloons under a domed ceiling with an oculus, reaching a height of 120 feet.

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