radome

Blend of radar +‎ dome, originating from the 1940s.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪ.dəʊm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪˌdoʊm/

radome (plural radomes)

1. A radar dome.
   • 2019, Joel Martinsen, transl., Supernova Era, Tor, page 233:

     Radar antennas were distributed in large quantities throughout the base, half of them in white radomes that looked as if some gigantic bird had laid a clutch of eggs at random.

     Translated from 超新星纪元 by Cixin Liu, 2004.

   • 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN, page 36:

     And it took my mother just twenty or so minutes to get to her new job at the NSA, whose boxy futuristic headquarters, topped with radomes and sheathed in copper to seal in the communications signals, forms the heart of Fort Meade.

• Medora, EDO-RAM, EDO RAM, Damore, Dorame, EDORAM, Madero, Meador, Madore, roamed

radome

1. first-person plural past of rasti