abutment
IPA: ʌbˈʌtmʌnt
noun
- The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts.
- (engineering, architecture) The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.
- (engineering) A construction that supports the ends of a bridge; a structure that anchors the cables on a suspension bridge.
- (engineering) The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed.
- Something that abuts, or on which something abuts.
- The state of abutting.
- (architecture) That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
- (dentistry) The tooth that supports a denture or bridge.
- A fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained.
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Examples of "abutment" in Sentences
- It's an abutment from a bridge that was put up to go over the Don Valley.
- "He hit that abutment and it just disintegrated," the witness told Newsday.
- The abutment is the extension attached to the implant, supporting the crown.
- It's called the abutment, and will protrude above the gums to hold the porcelain tooth.
- Without even noticing the rumble strips, she slammed into a bridge abutment and rolled over several times into a dry riverbed.
- Robert Reecks -- a longtime commander of the Suffolk hate crimes unit -- drove off the road and crashed into a concrete abutment.
- I sit down on a massive stone abutment just across from Notre Dame, where grace hovers hesitantly above the shoulders of stalwart gargoyles.
- The January 2009 scare showed engineers that something was happening inside the abutment, which is part of an ancient landslide that fell off McDonald Ridge above the dam.
- In this project, which Metro announced in September, the transit authority says it will make preliminary repairs to stabilize the ground, the abutment and the aerial structure outside the Cheverly station.
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