Calotte may refer to:

• Calotte, in architecture, a round cavity or depression, 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 zucchetto, a plain skull cap, specifically those worn by ecclesiastics. It is also in use among students at Belgian catholic universities as a student cap
• Calotte or space-filling model used in molecule modelling
• Calotte in anatomy is the term used to refer to the upper (superior) and lower (inferior) halves of the globe of the eye.

This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

[edit] See also

• Zucchetto
• Calotte (Belgium)

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