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Definition of Splays
1. splay [v] - See also: splay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splays
Literary usage of Splays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Radionuclide Retention in Geologic Media: Workshop Proceedings, Oskarshamn by Svensk kärnbränslehantering AB., OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2002)
"Type 1: Single fault Type 2: Swarm of single faults master fauli • splay crack
fault step I master fault, few splays Type 3: Fault zone fault step 2 or more ..."
2. Quantity Surveying: For the Use of Surveyors, Architects, Engineers and Builders by John Leaning (1891)
"splays, state width and that they include two arrises, and describe ... Stopped ends
and mitres to splays, junctions of circular and straight splays, &c. ..."
3. Quantity Surveying for the Use of Surveyors, Architects, Engineers and Builders by John Leaning (1904)
"splays, state width and that they include two arrises, and describe ... Stopped ends
and mitres to splays, junctions of circular and straight splays, etc. ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1880)
"That running to the west consists of a series of massive splays only, that running
eastwards and continued right round the choir is more ornate and moulded. ..."
5. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1902)
"There appear to have been either two or three lancets with large splays and the
circular window over them. The ceiling of the chancel was plain circular ..."
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