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Definition of Intercepting
1. intercept [v] - See also: intercept
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intercepting
Literary usage of Intercepting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sewerage: The Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of Sewerage Systems by Amory Prescott Folwell (1916)
"intercepting-SEWERS AND OVERFLOWS. It often happens that a town lies in a valley
and upon the slope on one or both of its sides, and that while the valley ..."
2. Sewerage: The Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of Sewerage Systems by Amory Prescott Folwell (1912)
"intercepting-SEWERS AND OVERFLOWS. It often happens that a town lies in a valley
and upon the lope on one or both of its sides, and that while the valley ..."
3. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1913)
"Parts 2, 3 and 5 constitute the intercepting valve proper. ... The reducing valve
or sleeve, 1, fits on the stem of the intercepting valve, 2, ..."
4. Reinforced Concrete by Albert Wells Buel, Charles Shattuck Hill (1904)
"181 is a transverse section of an intercepting-sewer constructed at Harrisburg,
Pa., in 1902. FIG. 181.—Section of intercepting Sewer at Harrisburg, Pa. ..."
5. Reinforced Concrete by Albert Wells Buel, Charles Shattuck Hill (1904)
"181 is a transverse section of an intercepting-sewer constructed at Harrisburg,
Pa., in 1902. FIG. 181.—Section of intercepting Sewer at Harrisburg, Pa. ..."
6. Reinforced Concrete by Albert Wells Buel, Charles Shattuck Hill (1904)
"181 is a transverse section of an intercepting-sewer constructed at Harrisburg,
Pa., in 1902. FlG. 181.—Section of intercepting Sewer at Harrisburg, Pa. ..."
7. Main Drainage Works of the City of Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.A.) by Eliot Channing Clarke (1888)
"This intercepting sewer, by its two branches, is intended finally to encircle
... At the point of junction the grade of the intercepting sewer is 1.5 feet ..."
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