Home > Industry/Domain > Architecture
Architecture
The science of designing and building structures for habitation.
8Categories 16895Terms
Add a new termContributors in Architecture
Architecture > Bridges 
air pressure
Architecture; Bridges
The pressure exerted by the air due to its weight or to its being compressed and confined in a reservoir.
air valve
Architecture; Bridges
A valve controlling the passage of air. Also a valve admitting air to a steam boiler, preventing the formation of a partial vacuum when the steam condenses.
air working chamber:
Architecture; Bridges
A chamber in a caisson into which compressed air is forced to expel the water so that laborers can work at excavating.
algebraic curve
Architecture; Bridges
A curve in which the equations in linear coordinates contain only the algebraic functions of the coordinates.
alidade
Architecture; Bridges
The horizontal plate in a transit which carries the verniers, the level bulbs, and the standards, and which revolves about the graduated limb: an attachment on many instruments ...
Sub-categories
- Architecture contemporaine (2777)
- Bridges (584)
- Castles (4382)
- Churches (28)
- General architecture (8959)
- Landscape design (1741)
- Postmodernist architecture ()
- Skyscrapers (311)