Definitions for counterfort

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counterfort coun·ter·fort

Spelling: [koun-ter-fawrt, -fohrt]

IPA: /ˈkaʊn tərˌfɔrt, -ˌfoʊrt/

Counterfort is a 11 letter English word.

You can make 426 anagrams from letters in counterfort (cefnoorrttu).

Definitions for counterfort

noun

1. a buttress, especially one for strengthening a basement wall against the pressure of earth.
2. a cantilevered weight, as in a retaining wall, having the form of a pier built on the side of the material to be retained.

Origin of counterfort

1580-90; partial translation of Middle French contrefort, equivalent to contre counter- + fort strength (derivative of fort (adj.) strong)

Examples for counterfort

In a counterfort, the inclined rods are sufficient to take the overturning stress.

Mr. Mensch states that "it would take up too much time to prove that the counterfort acts really as a beam."

He seems to mean the force tending to pull the counterfort loose from the horizontal slab.

The manifest and only function of the rib or counterfort is to tie together the curtain wall and the horizontal slab.

These rods are the vertical and horizontal rods in the counterfort of the retaining wall shown at a, in Fig. 2.