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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.
The major interior space, the Potomac rotunda, balloons under a domed ceiling with an oculus, reaching a height of 120 feet.
The oculus window will complement two large stained glass windows that have been installed in the third-floor ceiling.
The light entering through the oculus at the top floods the space with hypnotic patterns of light and shadow.
The oculus windows depicted in each of their two cells illuminate the figures with an otherworldly silvery light.
Each of the upper study areas has an oculus in the floor revealing its counterpart below.

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