In our industry, we often received the inquries from customers to call many different names of metal dome. It’s very interesting phenomenon, I think.
Bur for most, we call it metal dome. Dome means rounded roof with a circularbase, it comes from 16th century, and from the Latin domus.It looks like a upside-down round roof, so it named metal dome. It also have so many other names. such as: snap dome, tactile dome, metal snap dome, tactile metal dome, dome switches, and so on.