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voissoir

voissoir is the alternative form of voussoir.

Meaning of voussoir

Noun

voussoir (plural voussoirs)

  1. One of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault.
    • It is the voussoir depth in a real arch which enables the arch to carry wider ranges of loading; a large number of different idealized centre-line arches can be contained within a given practical profile. ...[T]his must be so, or no mediaeval bridge would have survived its decentering.1977, Jaques Heyman, Equilibrium of Shell Structures, Clarendon Press, Oxford, page 2

Forms of voissoir

pluralvoissoirs

Questions about voissoir

What is voissoir the alternative form of?
Voissoir is the alternative form of voussoir.

Words near voissoir in the dictionary

  1. Voisine
  2. Voisines
  3. Voisins
  4. voisko
  5. voiskos
  6. voissoir
  7. voissoirs
  8. Voit
  9. Voitel
  10. Voits
  11. voiture

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