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soil mechanics

soil mechanics noun: the application of mechanics (especially fluid mechanics) to soils, especially as a basis for the design and construction of building foundations and earthworks.

Noun

soil mechanics (uncountable)

  1. The application of mechanics (especially fluid mechanics) to soils, especially as a basis for the design and construction of building foundations and earthworks.
    • Consulting with the Foo firm brought soil mechanics into the plant engineer's toolchest.
    • An anemometer constructed by the Soil Mechanics Laboratory of the Western Region, British Railways, has been installed at Dawlish Warren, near Exeter, to obtain a record of the velocity (speed and direction) of the wind. This information is used for the study of the effects of wind erosion on the...1952 August, “Wind Velocity Records at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 545
  2. (metonymically) The mechanical behavior and performance of a soil.
    • The plan to build a dam just downriver from Fooville was foiled by unsatisfactory soil mechanics.

soil mechanics meaning in Tamil

soil mechanics in Tamil

மண்ணியல், மண்விசையியல், மண் இயக்கவியல், மண் விசையியல்

Questions about soil mechanics

What does soil mechanics mean?
Soil mechanics means the application of mechanics (especially fluid mechanics) to soils, especially as a basis for the design and construction of building foundations and earthworks.
What is soil mechanics in Tamil?
Soil mechanics in Tamil is மண்ணியல், மண்விசையியல், மண் இயக்கவியல். See Soil mechanics meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is soil mechanics?
Soil mechanics is a noun.

Words near soil mechanics in the dictionary

  1. soil creeps
  2. soil fertilities
  3. soil fertility
  4. soil genesis
  5. soil management
  6. soil mechanics
  7. soil microbiology
  8. soil mineralogy
  9. soil moisture deficit
  10. soil moisture deficits
  11. soil nail

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soil mechanics (page history and authors); soil mechanics (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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