Abutment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABUTMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a buttress of an arch, also BUTMENT
• the process of supporting something with an abutment
• a point at which something abuts against something else
• a structure built to support the lateral pressure of an arch or span, e.g. at the ends of a bridge
• construction supporting the end of a bridge
• State of abutting.
• That on or against which a body abuts or presses
• The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.
• A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc.
• In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.
• point of contact between two objects or parts
• a masonry support that touches and directly receives thrust or pressure of an arch or bridge
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• something that abuts

Words related to ABUTMENT

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Words that contain ABUTMENT

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How to use ABUTMENT in a sentence

• Towards the rear of the house, on the west side, he came across a curious abutment of masonry jutting out squarely from the wall.
• On the other side of this abutment, which gave the house something of an unfinished appearance, were three French windows close together.
• Upon reaching the bridge, however, they were dismayed to find that its plank flooring overlapped the abutment by several feet, and that it was impossible to ascend it.
• The corporal led the way past motionless men peering out over the top of the wall, and on to a widening, where an abutment of filled bags loomed up darkly.
• Hinton supposes a conductor to be a body which has the property of serving as a terminal abutment to such a hyper-vortex as has been described.
• Masked by bushes, it swung around an abutment and rose by ledge and natural tunnel, perilous and dizzy, but the one way out to safety.
• The big tracks floated the patrol car over the two-foot high, rounded abutment that divided each speed lane.
• In finding the abutment reactions some principle such as the principle of least action must be used, and some assumptions of doubtful validity made.
• The abutment towers are similar to the river towers.
• On the abutment towers the chains are connected by horizontal links, carried on rockers, to anchor ties.
• For suspension bridges the abutment forming the anchorage must be so designed as to be thoroughly stable under the greatest pull which the chains can exert.
• The hardier swimmers, with Paul, struck out for the abutment on the pier in their usual way and poor Michael was left alone.
• Showing abutment of smaller roof-beams over round girders 151 39.
• The purpose of such arrangement may have been to admit of the abutment of the ends of series 1, when the members of the latter were laid in contact.
• The buttresses of the eighteenth arch were extended, and on the abutment there rose a little castle formed of two towers joined by a vaulted porch.
• The preoperculum is curved in the segment of a circle, and has a short spine, with a smaller one on its base, opposite to the abutment of the infra-orbitar ridge.
• And sure enough, when they had passed an abutment of the ridge, far off through the woods they saw a fire.
• Settling himself against the first abutment, beneath the huge iron arches, he took sketches and painted studies.
• Through the abutment of the arch where the afternoon sun pours its brightness the waves have cut other arches not visible in the picture.

Similar words containing ABUTM without suffix ent

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