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PORTAL BRACING

Definition: PORTAL BRACING

PORTAL BRACING

1. (Bridge Building), a combination of struts and ties which lie in the plane of the inclined braces at a portal, serving to transfer wind pressure from the upper parts of the trusses to an abutment or pier of the bridge.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Anagrams: PORTAL BRACING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-g-i-l-n-o-p-r-r-t"

-3 letters: calibrator.

-4 letters: antilabor, baritonal, botanical, cantorial, parabolic, parroting, placating, placation, probating, prolactin, prorating, raptorial.

-5 letters: ablating, ablation, aborting, anabolic, analogic, antalgic, arbitral, arrogant, bangtail, baronial, barranco, bloating, borating, botanica, braciola, brantail, cantraip, carbinol, caroling, carrotin, cilantro, coapting, contagia, contrail, coplanar, craaling, laboring, larrigan, locating, notarial, panbroil, paranoic, paroling, patronal, platonic, raincoat, rational, ringbolt.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: PORTAL BRACING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 4F 52 54 41 4C      42 52 41 43 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001111 01010010 01010100 01000001 01001100 00100000 01000010 01010010 01000001 01000011 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#82 &#84 &#65 &#76 &#32 &#66 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0052 0054 0041 004C      0042 0052 0041 0043 0049 004E 0047

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

504952543546236523537434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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