Wiktionary
n. A weatherproof enclosure used to protect a radar antenna.
WordNet
n. a housing for a radar antenna; transparent to radio waves [syn: radome]
Usage examples of "radar dome".
Beyond her by about half a mile was a spherical radar dome, probably the Natya, rolling noticeably with the beam seas.
The Mig-31 was not a radical departure from previous airframes--lighter, packed with advanced avionics, with a peculiar jutting radar dome near the front.
These were Boeing 707 airliners, carrying a huge radar dome mounted on their backs.
As soon as the SA-10 missile launch was detected, a small radar dome extended from a compartment near the B-2A bomber's tail, the radar slaved itself to the azimuth of the SA-10 missile site, and the radar began scanning the sky for the missile itself.
When the jet-- Pitt by now had spotted the huge radar dome on the nose and recognized it as a command center aircraft-- came within 100 meters, faces could be distinguished through the ports staring down, taking in every detail of the super yacht.
It is probable that the 'melon', the bulging dome on the front of a dolphin's head, looking - pleasing coincidence - like the weirdly bulging radar dome of a Nimrod 'advance-warning' surveillance aircraft, has something to do with beaming the sonar signals forwards, but its exact workings are not understood.
Parotkin's first officer touched him on the arm and pointed skyward above the Mikhail Kurkov's huge radar dome.