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Definition of Substructures
1. substructure [n] - See also: substructure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Substructures
Literary usage of Substructures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER VIII ON FOUNDATIONS AND substructures 1. HOUSES which are set level with
the ground will no doubt last to a great age, if their foundations are laid ..."
2. The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome: A Companion Book for Students and by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1897)
"... which follows their capricious outline. Two Christian churches or oratories
have been found hidden, as it were, in these substructures. ..."
3. Papers of the British School at Rome by British School at Rome (1904)
"... enclosed by a wall, and supported in places by substructures which from its
shape has often been supposed to be a circus, but was in reality a cemetery. ..."
4. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER VIII ON FOUNDATIONS AND substructures 1. HOUSES which are set level with
the ground will no doubt last to a great age, if then- foundations are laid ..."
5. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER IV THE FOUNDATIONS AND substructures OF TEMPLES 1. THE foundations of
these works should be dug out of the solid ground, if it can be found, ..."
6. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1915)
"To give additional stability the bents are usually anchored to the concrete footings.
. The other types of substructures for elevated flumes are not so ..."
7. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1915)
"The other types of substructures for elevated flumes are not so commonly used.
Wooden trusses between trestle bents may be used to increase the span between ..."
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