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Point of contact between two objects or parts
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abutment
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abutment \A*but"ment\ ([.a]*b[u^]t"ment), n. State of abutting. That on or against which a body abuts or presses; as (Arch.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut. --Gwilt. (Mech.) ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts. (First attested in the mid 17 th century.) 2 (context engineering architecture English) The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In dentistry , an abutment is a connecting element. This is used in the context of a fixed bridge (the "abutment teeth" referring to the teeth supporting the bridge), partial removable dentures (the "abutment teeth" referring to the teeth supporting the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from abut + -ment . Originally any "junction;" the architectural usage is attested from 1793 (the notion is of the meeting-place of the arches of a bridge, etc.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. point of contact between two objects or parts a masonry support that touches and directly receives thrust or pressure of an arch or bridge
Usage examples of abutment.
In finding the abutment reactions some principle such as the principle of least action must be used, and some assumptions of doubtful validity made.
On the abutment towers the chains are connected by horizontal links, carried on rockers, to anchor ties.
Each chain over a shore span consists of two segments, the longer attached to the tie at the top of the river tower, the shorter to the link at the top of the abutment tower, and the two jointed together at the lowest point.
Eads, the engineer, determined to establish the piers and abutments on rock at a depth for the east pier and east abutment of 136 ft.
Points A, B, and X are merely bifurcations rather than an abutment of two ridges at an angle.
The hardier swimmers, with Paul, struck out for the abutment on the pier in their usual way and poor Michael was left alone.
The abutments also must be strong enough to take safely the thrust of the weighted arch, as the slightest movement in these supports will cause deflection and failure.
On the other hand, a girder imposes only a vertical load on its piers and abutments, and not a horizontal thrust, as in the case of an arch or suspension chain.
Brunei constructed the towers and abutments for a suspension bridge of 702 ft.
Two main towers in the river and two towers on the shore abutments carry the suspension chains.
The reason given for this change of form was that it more conveniently allowed the lower road to pass between the springings and ensured the transmission of the wind stresses to the abutments without interrupting the cross-bracing.
The substructure of a bridge comprises the piers, abutments and foundations.
Some types of bridge can be built out from the abutments, the completed part forming an erecting stage on which lifting appliances are fixed.
The cost of abutments and bridge flooring is practically independent of the length of span adopted.
The wizard had drawn a seven-pointed star in lime-wash on a slab that had been part of the abutments of the Old Kingdom bridge.