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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revetment \Re*vet"ment\, n. [F. rev[^e]tement the lining of a ditch, fr. rev[^e]tir to clothe, L. revestire. See Revest, v. t.] (Fort. & Engin.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall. [Written also rev[^e]tement.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A layer of stone, concrete, or other hard material supporting the side of an embankment. 2 An armoured building that provides protection against bombs.
WordNet
n. a barrier against explosives
a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment [syn: revetement, stone facing]
Wikipedia
In stream restoration, river engineering or coastal engineering, revetments are sloping structures placed on banks or cliffs in such a way as to absorb the energy of incoming water. In military engineering they are structures, again sloped, formed to secure an area from artillery, bombing, or stored explosives. River or coastal revetments are usually built to preserve the existing uses of the shoreline and to protect the slope, as defense against erosion.
A revetment, in military aviation, is a parking area for one or more aircraft that is surrounded by blast walls on three sides. These walls are as much about protecting neighbouring aircraft as it is to protect the aircraft within the revetment. If a combat aircraft fully loaded with fuel and munitions was to somehow be set on fire, by accident or design, then it could start a chain reaction, as the destruction of individual aircraft could set ablaze its neighbours. The blast walls around a revetment are designed to channel blast and damage upwards and outwards away from neighbouring aircraft.
Revetment may refer to:
- Revetment, a sloping structure used in erosion control (at a riverbank or coastline) or as part of military fortifications
- Revetment (aircraft), an area for parking aircraft that is protected by blast walls
- Riza, a metal cover protecting a religious icon
- A façade of stone slabs or decorated ceramic plaques used as the outer facing layer of a wall, especially in Ancient Roman architecture
Usage examples of "revetment".
Each maniple of five men cooked for itself, did its own laundry, made its own shelters from woven synthetics and rope, and contributed men for work on the encampment revetments and palisades.
He pointed, and she saw prefabricated revetments on an uncratered stretch of runway.
There, arranged in revetments, ready presumably for a fast liftoff, were dozens, no, scores of the livecrewed fighting machines that would form an important part of the defense when the attack came.
The ultimate effect of levees and revetments confining the floods and bringing all the stages of the river into register is to deepen the channel and let down the slope.
Tenescowri were doing, clambering up towards the flanking revetments only to be met by the serrated blades of long-handled pikes.
The pits and revetments and shelters built around the terraces of the range at least gave the illusion of somewhat greater security than you felt when standing around out in the open, and the meeting quickly moved to a relatively indoor location.
In one of the revetments on the next lower level, the dragoon troops had brought from somewhere a portable screen communicator with scrambler set up or, for all that Chen could tell, what they were using might have been a part of the built-in intercom between the command bunkers and this control center of the firing range.
At Mount Cardoon he spent ten minutes in contemplation of the new revetment, then continued toward Glentlin.
The weapon in the revetment of sandbags, timber and sheet-iron on the forecastle of the Chakra was a stubby cast-steel tube nearly as tall as a man, joined to a massive circular disk-plate of welded wrought iron and steel by a ball-and-socket joint.
More and more Pioneer and Meteor jet fighters sheltered in revetments.
The actual experience with levees upon the Mississippi River, with no attempt to hold the banks, has been favorable, and no one can doubt, upon the evidence furnished in the reports of the commission, that if the earliest levees had been accompanied by revetment of banks, and made complete, we should have to-day a river navigable at low water, and an adjacent country safe from inundation.
Without distraction, he could study firsthand the workings of the revetments laid along the levees to reduce erosion, the condition of the levees themselves, the rock jetties and navigation locks leading to and from the river.
The armory at least had light artillery in revetments, and heavy mortars of its own.
Three of the American fighters ended up in sandbag revetments, where ground crews immediately refueled and rearmed their aircraft.
Indian Leap State Park is bisected by a lazy S-shaped canyon, which extends for half a mile from the parking lot off 116 to Rocky Point Beach, a deceptive name for what's nothing more than a bleak rock revetment on a gray, man-made lake about one mile by two in size.