Word Finder - superstructure

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Any structure built above the top full deck (FM 55-501).

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Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis.

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(sometimes figurative) All that part of a building above the basement.

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The sleepers and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.

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The social sphere of ideology which includes religion, art, politics, law and all traditional values.

The superstructure had been destroyed by fire.

In a bridge there may be distinguished the superstructure and the substructure.

In fact, as the span increases a point is reached at which the dead weight of the superstructure becomes so large that a limit is imposed to any further increase of span.

The houses of the city are built of stone, their walls commonly showing the massive masonry of the Incas at the bottom, crowned with a light modern superstructure roofed with red tiles.

Soft steel is used for rivets always, and sometimes for the whole superstructure of a bridge, but medium steel more generally for the plates, angle bars, &c., the weight of the bridge being then reduced by about 7% for a given factor of safety.

Its superstructure consists of igneous rocks of all descriptions with which the original valleys between its marginal ranges have been filled by volcanic action.

The limitations of the test were the limitations of the educational and philosophic ideals of the time, in which a dogmatic basis was presupposed to all knowledge and criticism was limited to the superstructure.

If the foundations of the system of civil administration were laid by Hastings, the superstructure was erected by Cornwallis.

Condillac goes a step farther, and sees no necessity for the superstructure at all, with its need of explanation valid or invalid.

The KonungabOk is preserved under the Heimskringla of Snorri Sturloson, parts of it almost as they came from Ari's hands, for example Ynglinga and Harald Fairhair's Saga, and the prefaces stating the plan and critical foundations of the work, parts of it only used as a framework for the magnificent superstructure of the lives of the two Olafs, and of Harald Hardrada and his nephew Magnus the Good.

The pipes are carried on a 100 year old multi-span bridge, consisting of an elaborate steel superstructure on masonry abutments and piers.

The superstructure crashed into the empty magma chamber, leaving the caldera, a hole where the magma chamber had been.

The vehicle was supporting considerable weight from the house superstructure, but without removing it they could not extricate the driver.

Dwarf foundation walls topped by chamfered freestone, supporting a timber superstructure; six glazed windows on either side.

In addition piles were driven for a temporary working platform to support a tower crane for Dean & Dyball to build the superstructure.

The piers, of which there were 181 single and 12 double, supporting the superstructure, were formed from five cast iron columns.

We already had the existing oak superstructure to work with.

He was probably worried that at Corinth people were erecting a rather inferior superstructure on his sound foundation.

Eight double posts carry a superstructure around the hearth.

Two views of the wooden superstructure of the new box arising from the old pit.

Why does the economic " base " of a society affect its political superstructure?

With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed.

The crisis was one of the whole political superstructure.

Employment can be stimulated by public investment in industry, the social superstructure and the social services.

The concrete piers for the vanished timber superstructure can be seen clearly in the water.

The bridge superstructure has received a dark blue band at window level.

Complete new steel superstructure of superb workmanship, & internal refit of this historic boat built by Harris brothers in the 1960's.

The boat is equipped with suction apparatus for marine salvage work and the electrical gear includes two searchlights on the deck superstructure.

The so-called Arco di Augusto is a town gate with a Decorated superstructure, perhaps of the Etruscan period, bearing the inscription Augusta Perusia; above this again is a Renaissance loggia.

According to its so fifth report, it originated " in the prospective fears of a portion of the trade that some dire calamity must inevitably, sooner or later, overtake the cotton manufacture of Lancashire, whose vast superstructure had so long rested upon the treacherous foundation of restricted slave labour as the main source of supply for its raw material."

He had restored the superstructure of the imperial monarchy, but he had likewise strengthened and legalized methods and institutions till then private and insecure, and these, passing from custom into law, undermined the foundations of the structure he had thought himself to be repairing.

Under the most splendid house in the city is still to be found the cellar where they store their roots as of old, and long after the superstructure has disappeared posterity remark its dent in the earth.

Along his work, he saw the state as part of the superstructure of exploitative societies.

The key element of innovation related to the concrete frame superstructure of the buildings.

After almost 100 years the superstructure of the vessel was found to be in surprisingly good condition.

Ripley enters the lair alone, armed to the teeth, to retrieve her, and Bishop snags them from the building's superstructure moments before the self-destruct sequence destroys the colonial facilities.

The superstructure of a similar gate (Porta Marzia), which was removed in 1540 to make way for the citadel, but is depicted in a fresco by Benedetto Bonfigli (between 1461 and 1 477), was re-erected in the substruction walls of the citadel itself.

There is coral along the coasts everywhere, and the Sentinel Islands are composed of the newer rocks with a superstructure of coral.

For our part, we are not disinclined to believe that the Robin Hood story has some historical basis, however fanciful and romantic the superstructure.

The development of the theory of structures has been largely directed to determining the arrangements of material which are most economical, especially in the superstructure.

When arches form the superstructure, the abutment must be so designed as to transmit the resultant thrust to the foundation in a safe direction, and so distributed that no part may be unduly compressed.

Let G be the cost of superstructure ?

Neither a turbulent minority, nor the neglect of an absentee king; neither the revival of separatist tendencies in Lithuania, nor the outbreaks of aristocratic lawlessness in Poland, could do more than shake the superstructure of the imposing edifice.

Among the monuments is that of Strongbow, the invader of Ireland, to whom the earlier part of the superstructure (1170) is due.

The nave is transitional Norman, with a Decorated superstructure including the clerestory.

Taurellus maintained the necessity of going back to Christianity itself, as at once the superstructure and the justification of philosophy.

The plural form Atlantes is the classical term in architecture for the male sculptured figures supporting a superstructure as in the baths at Pompeii, and in the temple at Agrigentum in Sicily.

Here the jib, superstructure and post are all united in one piece, which revolves in a foundation well, being supported at the bottom by a toe-step and near the ground level by horizontal FIG.

Each particular science has its own subject matter and special principles (&ac apxai) on which the superstructure of its special discoveries is based.

On this narrow foundation was raised a vast superstructure, ecclesiastical, administrative and military.