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voussoirs

voussoirs is the plural 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

Questions about voussoirs

What is voussoirs the plural of?
Voussoirs is the plural of voussoir.

Words near voussoirs in the dictionary

  1. Voulon
  2. Voulême
  3. voussoir
  4. voussoired
  5. voussoiring
  6. voussoirs
  7. vousvoie
  8. vousvoied
  9. vousvoies
  10. vousvoyer
  11. vousvoyered

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