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Definition of Foundations
1. foundation [n] - See also: foundation
Medical Definition of Foundations
1. Organizations established by endowments with provision for future maintenance. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foundations
Literary usage of Foundations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1907)
"PAPERS AND DISCUSSIONS. This Society is not responsible, as a body, for the facts
and opinions advanced in any of its publications. Foundations. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Foundations.—The order spread into France, Italy, Germany, Bavaria, Poland, Norway,
... Four foundations were made in France, at Lille, Valenciennes, Arras, ..."
3. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER VIII ON Foundations AND SUBSTRUCTURES 1. ... But if underground rooms
and vaults are intended, their foundations ought to be thicker than the walls ..."
4. Publications (1848)
"First, the foundation of all foundations, the corner-stone Four sorta itself,
... Ministerial foundations. The church is built upon the foundation of the ..."
5. Engineering for Masonry Dams by William Pitcher Creager (1917)
"It is probable that more than 90 per cent of all failures of masonry dams has
been caused by faulty foundations. It is of the utmost importance, therefore, ..."
6. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1892)
"The foundations were laid in what are known as caissons, ... The cause of the
disaster was attributed to the unsound- ness of the foundations. ..."
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