counterfort
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concrete
COUNTERFORT + NOUN
wall
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A buttress built against a wall.
This involved new track drainage, strengthening of embankments and cuttings and the provision of counterforts.
The soil above the base of a reinforced concrete cantilever or counterfort wall is included as part of the weight of the wall in stability calculations.
A spur of a mountain range.
With its counterforts projecting some 300 miles, [the Pamir] forms the western headland of all the plateaux and mountain systems skirting the Chinese Empire; it completely separates the two halves of Asia, and forms an almost impassable barrier to migration and warlike incursions.
This angle is buttressed from the interior by an enormous counterfort of lower mountain country, extending several hundred miles to the eastward, forming the main part of the highlands of Bolivia, and separating the tributaries of the Amazon
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3This involved new track drainage, strengthening of embankments and cuttings and the provision of counterforts.
WiktionaryThe soil above the base of a reinforced concrete cantilever or counterfort wall is included as part of the weight of the wall in stability calculations.
WiktionaryMair reports work described in 1844 to install counterforts in slopes, which were typically trenches that were two metres wide and around eight metres apart. They were dug down one metre and backfille
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