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Skylight vs Dormer - What's the difference?

skylight | dormer |

As nouns the difference between skylight and dormer

is that skylight is a window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light while dormer is a room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof.

skylight

English

(wikipedia skylight)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light.
  • —solar radiation reaching the earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or suspensoids in the atmosphere

    • dormer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) a room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof
  • dormer-window