Definitions for abutments

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abutments a·but·ment

Spelling: [uh-buht-muh nt]

IPA: /əˈbʌt mənt/

Abutments is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 499 anagrams from letters in abutments (abemnsttu).

Definitions for abutments

noun

1. Architecture, Civil Engineering. a masonry mass supporting and receiving the thrust of part of an arch or vault. a force that serves to abut an arch or vault. a mass, as of masonry, receiving the arch, beam, truss, etc., at each end of a bridge. a mass or structure for resisting the pressure of water on a bridge, pier, or the like. each of the parts of a canyon or the like receiving the thrusts of an arch dam. a structure for absorbing tensions from reinforcing strands for concrete being prestressed.
2. the place where projecting parts meet; junction.
3. Dentistry. a tooth or tooth root that supports or stabilizes a bridge, denture, or other prosthetic appliance.

Origin of abutments

First recorded in 1635-45; abut + -ment

Examples for abutments

The abutment forms were built up as the concreting progressed.

Where they stood an abutment of the cliff hid the ravine below.

But--I feel bound to state that I am in some doubt as to the abutment on the other side!'

They had not yet mounted the abutment, and were then securing their horses near the bank of the creek.

It was like going up hill, but the Socrates reached the abutment and was safe.

On each side the abutment piers had been undermined and washed out.

As he formed this resolution, he emerged from the shadow of the abutment.

Considering the abutment and wing wall work, comprising 594 cu.

There was no railing to this abutment, not even a coping along its borders.

There was a stone wall, or abutment, near the town, about sixty feet high.