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Definition of Caisson
1. Noun. An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
2. Noun. A two-wheeled military vehicle carrying artillery ammunition.
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
3. Noun. A chest to hold ammunition.
4. Noun. Large watertight chamber used for construction under water.
Definition of Caisson
1. n. A chest to hold ammunition.
Definition of Caisson
1. Noun. (context: engineering) An enclosure, from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc. ¹
2. Noun. The gate across the entrance to a dry dock. ¹
3. Noun. (nautical) A floating tank that can be submerged, attached to an underwater object and then pumped out to lift the object by buoyancy; a camel. ¹
4. Noun. (military) A two-wheeled, horse-drawn military vehicle used to carry ammunition (and a coffin at funerals). ¹
5. Noun. (military) A large box to hold ammunition. ¹
6. Noun. (context: architecture) A variant of coffer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caisson
1. a watertight chamber [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caisson
Literary usage of Caisson
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Masonry Construction by Ira Osborn Baker (1914)
"With the introduction of the compressed-air process, the term caisson was applied
to a ... At present, the word caisson generally has the latter meaning. ..."
2. Transactions (1849)
"An account of the caisson Dams used in some of the works on the River Shannon;
... THE President exhibited a model of the caisson Dams which had been used ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"In use, the caisson is loaded sufficiently to overcome the friction of the earth
on its sides, and the lifting power of the compressed air within it. ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"caisson Disease (Divers' Paralysis) caisson disease, or divers' paralysis ...
The symptoms develop after the patient leaves the caisson—as a rule, suddenly. ..."
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