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Words related to buttress

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  • flying buttress

    a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.

  • amortizement

    a sloping top on a buttress, pillar, etc.

  • counterfort

    a strengthening buttress at right angles to a retaining wall, bonded to it to prevent overturning or to increase its bending strength

  • leaf primordium

    a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.

  • nosing

    the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
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