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вынимать, извлекать; вырабатывать, обрабатывать; работа, труд, действие, занятие; работать•
- ancillary work
- bank work
- bargain work
- blading work
- blast-hole work
- board-and-pillar work
- brutal work
- caisson work
- capital work
- composite work
- conveyer work
- day work
- dead work
- demolition work
- development work
- drainage work
- dredging work
- dressing works
- drivage work
- earth-moving work
- erection work
- filling work
- gang work
- helmet work
- jigger work
- long-pillar work
- maintenance work
- narrow work
- piece work
- pillar work
- pitch work
- preparatory work
- prestarting works
- research work
- room work
- slag work
- team work
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(caisson work) Einschleusezeit, DruckerhöhungszeitEnglish-German dictionary of labour protection > compression time
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(caisson work) tiempo de compresión, duración de paso por la esclusaEnglish-Spanish dictionary of labour protection > compression time
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(caisson work) время компрессии, время шлюзованияEnglish-Russian dictionary of labour protection > compression time
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(caisson work) время компрессии, время шлюзованияEnglish-Russian labor protection dictionary > compression time
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(caisson work) durée de compression, durée d'éclusageEnglish-French dictionary of labour protection > compression time
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12 Roebling, Washington Augustus
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering[br]b. 26 May 1837 Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, USAd. 21 July 1926 Trenton, New Jersey, USA.[br]American civil engineer.[br]The son of John Augustus Roebling, he graduated in 1857 from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a civil engineer, and joined his father in his suspension bridge construction work. He served in the Civil War as a colonel of engineers in the Union Army, and in 1867, two years after the end of the war, he went to Europe to study new methods of sinking underwater foundations by means of compressed air. These new methods were employed in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, of which he took charge on his father's death in 1869. Timber pneumatic caissons were used, with a maximum pressure of 34 psi (2.4 kg/cm2) above atmospheric pressure. Two years after work on the piers had started in the caissons, Roebling, who had been working constantly with the men on the foundations of the piers, was carried unconscious out of the caisson, a victim of decompression sickness, then known as “caisson disease”. He was paralysed and lost the use of his voice. From then on he directed the rest of the work from the sickroom of his nearby house, his wife, Emily Warren Roebling, helping with his instructions and notes and carrying them out to the workforce; she even read a statement from him to the American Society of Civil Engineers. The erection of the cables, which were of steel, began in August 1876 and took twenty-six months to complete. In 1881 eleven trustees and Emily Warren Roebling walked across temporary planking, but the decking of the total span was not completed until 1885, fourteen years after construction of the bridge had started. The Brooklyn Bridge was Roebling's last major work, although following the death of his nephew in 1921 he was forced to head again the management of Roebling \& Company, though aged 84 and an invalid.[br]Further ReadingD.B.Steinman and S.R.Watson, 1941, Bridges and their Builders, New York: Dover Books.D.McCullough, 1982, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the BrooklynBridge, New York: Simon \& Schuster.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Roebling, Washington Augustus
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1) метод; способ; средство2) система; порядок3) технология4) методика•- method of applying liquid lubrication - method of calculation - method of column analogy - method of comparison - method of connecting - method of determining bending moments by fixed points - method of directions - method of elastic arch - method of elastic weights - method of electric needles - method of exchange of members - method of firing - method of fixed points - method of images - method of initial parameters - method of joints - method of least squares - method of least work - method of limit equilibrium - method of minimum strain energy - method of moments - method of movement - method of operation - method of payment - method of planning - method of production - method of redundant reactions - method of rotations - method of sections - method of separate joint displacement - method of slopes - method of stowage - method of strain measurement method - method of substitute redundant members - method of successive approximations - method of successive corrections - method of training - method of transportation - method of working - method of zero moment points - methods of network planning and control - ad hoc method - advertising method - aero-projection method - air-permeability method - airslide method - approximation method - arbitrary proportions method - area moment method - artificial islands method - ball method of testing - bench method - bidding methods - brush method of treatment timber - building methods - caisson method - cantilever method of design - cassette method of production of thin-slab structures - central mixing method - centre drift method - centrifuge method - centroidal method of design - change-in-stress method - chemical injection method - closed building method - column analogy method of design - compressed-air method of tunnelling - concrete testing method - cone method - construction works quality control method - core-drill method - correlation method - cut-and-cover method - cut-and-try method - cylinder method - deflection method - design methods - development method - dip method - dipping method of treatment timber - effective method - electrolytic method - emulsified-asphalt penetration method - energy method - equal load increments method - equal strain method - error method - fabrication method - fixing method - float and chains method - flow-line conveyer method - force method - graphical method - heading method of tunnelling - hot-air heating standpipe method - hot penetration method - hydraulic fill method - impact method - kinematic method - lacquer film method - land-assembly methods - lift-slab method - limit equilibrium method - limit stage design method - line production method - loading method - magnaflux method - mechanical method by pumps - membrane method of waterproofing - mixed-in-place method - mock-up methods of design - modular ratio method - moire fringe method - moment area method - moment-distribution method - moment-of-inertia method of designing - mud-jack method - mulch method - near end moment distribution method - neutral-points method - non-destructive testing methods - normal method - packing methods - patented method of construction - penetration method - percussive pneumatic method of riveting - photo-elastic method of stress-determination - photo-elasticity method - pilot method - pilot tunnel method - pin-and-string method - pipe-bridge method - plastic method of design - plastic theory method - polarized light method - portal method of design - pounding method of curing concrete - production line method of construction - qualitative methods - quantitative methods - relaxation method - ring-and-ball method - rolled-on method - safe method of heat insulation - safety methods - sampling method - sand-bearing method of testing clay pipes - sand-island method - scheduling method - seismic method of prospecting - simultaneous construction method - slope deflection method - spatial self-fixation erection method - statistical analysis method - stovepipe pipe-laying method - strain-energy method - successive construction method - surface-coating method of waterproofing - synthetic method of restoration - thixotropic liquid method - tilt-up method - top-heading method - transfiguration method - trial-load method - turnover method - ultimate-strength method - ultrasonic pulse velocity method - void method of proportioning - volume method of concrete mix design - volumetric method - water-jet method of pile-driving - weight method - well-point method of excavation - work method - working stress method of design* * *метод, способ; система; порядок; методика; технология- method of analysis
- method of application
- method of attack
- method of bearing and distances
- method of bipolar coordinates
- method of calculation
- method of design
- method of detail survey
- method of elastic weights
- method of electric needles
- method of expansion into series
- method of fixed points
- method of intersection
- method of joint isolation
- method of least work
- methods of manufacture
- method of minimum strain energy
- method of moment distribution
- method of radiation
- method of redistribution of pressure
- method of sections
- method of steam jet
- methods of structural analysis
- method of successive approximations
- methods of testing
- method of water needles
- accepted method of building
- accepted method of house construction
- accurate method of analysis
- adhesive nail-on method
- admittance method
- advanced methods of concreting
- advance slope method
- aggregate exposure method
- air permeability method
- alternate methods
- American method
- analytical method of determining reactions
- API method of pile design
- approximate method
- approximation method
- area method
- area-moment method
- assembly methods
- Austrian method
- autogenous curing method
- balanced cantilever method
- Belgian method
- Benoto method
- bentonite method
- Billner method
- "bin" method
- boiling water method
- boom placement concreting method
- bricklaying methods
- building method
- building block module method
- cable method of rock stressing
- calculation method
- cantilever method
- Chicago method
- circular-arc method
- Coast-Survey method
- collapse method of structural design
- combined finite strip-finite element method
- compaction methods of clays
- conjugate beam method
- consistency measurement method
- construction methods
- construction and erection methods
- contiguous pile method
- continuous-flight augers method
- continuous-sample method of advance
- convergence method
- critical method
- critical path method
- Cross moment distribution method
- Cross method
- cross-section method
- current design methods
- cut-and-cover method
- dampproofing methods
- displacement method
- displacement method of advance
- dual-rail method
- dummy unit-load method
- dust-spot method
- Dutch cone method
- earth pressure balanced tunneling method
- elastic center method
- elastic weights method
- electric analogy method
- electric resisting method
- energy method
- equal friction method of duct sizing
- equal friction method
- equivalent load method
- erection method
- fast track construction methods
- fatigue test method
- finite difference method
- finite element method
- finite strip method
- flight auger method
- flotation caisson method
- flue loss method
- folded plate method of analysis
- force method
- free cantilever method of construction
- general method of analysis
- Glotzl hydraulic cell method
- Gow method
- Hardy Cross method
- housing appraisal method
- in-duct method
- industrialized methods of construction
- iterative method
- jack method
- jacking method
- lacquer curtain coating method
- laser beam method
- leap-frog method
- limit equilibrium method
- limit state method
- listening methods
- load factor design method
- mandrel method
- mathematical method of design
- matrix method of structural analysis
- maturity method
- measuring method
- mixed-mode method
- mix-in-place method
- modern building methods
- modular ratio method
- moiré fringe method
- moment-balance method
- nondestructive methods of tests
- normal method of quality control
- null method
- numerical method
- one-rail method
- optical square method
- permissible stress method
- phototheodolite method
- plastic methods of structural analysis
- plate count method
- precast concrete manufacturing methods
- pressuremeter method
- proven construction methods
- p-y method of pile design
- rapid test method
- ratio method of balancing
- rebound hammer method
- reference point method
- relaxation method
- reproducible methods
- resistivity method
- resonant-frequency method
- reverberant field method
- Rockwell method of hardness testing
- safe method
- safe working methods
- secant interlocking pile method
- secant pile method
- seismic method of surveying
- seismic reflection method
- seismic refraction method
- semiprobabilistic design method
- shear transfer method
- shock response method of pile testing
- sliding-wedge method
- slope deflection method
- solar radiation method
- sonic method
- special method of quality control
- standard test method
- static regain method of duct sizing
- static regain method
- statistical design method
- step-by-step method
- strength design method
- strength evaluation method
- successive approximations method
- suspended cantilever method
- swamp shooting method
- Tagg method
- tangent modulus method
- test methods
- Theis method
- thixotropic liquid method
- three-point method
- tilt-up method
- time-saving method of construction
- TNO method of analysis
- TNO method of pile testing
- transit and stadia method
- tremie method
- truss analogy method
- turn-of-nut method
- ultrasonic pulse velocity method
- vacuum concrete method of bridge construction
- valveless pulse-jet method
- vane shear method
- velocity reduction method of duct sizing
- velocity reduction method
- vibratory method
- Vickers method of hardness testing
- volume method of measuring aggregates
- warm water method
- water fog spray method
- western bricklaying method
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- method
- nметод, способ; система; порядок; методика; технология
- method of analysis
- method of application
- method of attack
- method of bearing and distances
- method of bipolar coordinates
- method of calculation
- method of design
- method of detail survey
- method of elastic weights
- method of electric needles
- method of expansion into series
- method of fixed points
- method of intersection
- method of joint isolation
- method of least work
- methods of manufacture
- method of minimum strain energy
- method of moment distribution
- method of radiation
- method of redistribution of pressure
- method of sections
- method of steam jet
- methods of structural analysis
- method of successive approximations
- methods of testing
- method of water needles
- accepted method of building
- accepted method of house construction
- accurate method of analysis
- adhesive nail-on method
- admittance method
- advanced methods of concreting
- advance slope method
- aggregate exposure method
- air permeability method
- alternate methods
- American method
- analytical method of determining reactions
- API method of pile design
- approximate method
- approximation method
- area method
- area-moment method
- assembly methods
- Austrian method
- autogenous curing method
- balanced cantilever method
- Belgian method
- Benoto method
- bentonite method
- Billner method
- "bin" method
- boiling water method
- boom placement concreting method
- bricklaying methods
- building method
- building block module method
- cable method of rock stressing
- calculation method
- cantilever method
- Chicago method
- circular-arc method
- Coast-Survey method
- collapse method of structural design
- combined finite strip-finite element method
- compaction methods of clays
- conjugate beam method
- consistency measurement method
- construction methods
- construction and erection methods
- contiguous pile method
- continuous-flight augers method
- continuous-sample method of advance
- convergence method
- critical method
- critical path method
- Cross moment distribution method
- Cross method
- cross-section method
- current design methods
- cut-and-cover method
- dampproofing methods
- displacement method
- displacement method of advance
- dual-rail method
- dummy unit-load method
- dust-spot method
- Dutch cone method
- earth pressure balanced tunneling method
- elastic center method
- elastic weights method
- electric analogy method
- electric resisting method
- energy method
- equal friction method of duct sizing
- equal friction method
- equivalent load method
- erection method
- fast track construction methods
- fatigue test method
- finite difference method
- finite element method
- finite strip method
- flight auger method
- flotation caisson method
- flue loss method
- folded plate method of analysis
- force method
- free cantilever method of construction
- general method of analysis
- Glotzl hydraulic cell method
- Gow method
- Hardy Cross method
- housing appraisal method
- in-duct method
- industrialized methods of construction
- iterative method
- jack method
- jacking method
- lacquer curtain coating method
- laser beam method
- leap-frog method
- limit equilibrium method
- limit state method
- listening methods
- load factor design method
- mandrel method
- mathematical method of design
- matrix method of structural analysis
- maturity method
- measuring method
- mixed-mode method
- mix-in-place method
- modern building methods
- modular ratio method
- moiré fringe method
- moment-balance method
- nondestructive methods of tests
- normal method of quality control
- null method
- numerical method
- one-rail method
- optical square method
- permissible stress method
- phototheodolite method
- plastic methods of structural analysis
- plate count method
- precast concrete manufacturing methods
- pressuremeter method
- proven construction methods
- p-y method of pile design
- rapid test method
- ratio method of balancing
- rebound hammer method
- reference point method
- relaxation method
- reproducible methods
- resistivity method
- resonant-frequency method
- reverberant field method
- Rockwell method of hardness testing
- safe method
- safe working methods
- secant interlocking pile method
- secant pile method
- seismic method of surveying
- seismic reflection method
- seismic refraction method
- semiprobabilistic design method
- shear transfer method
- shock response method of pile testing
- sliding-wedge method
- slope deflection method
- solar radiation method
- sonic method
- special method of quality control
- standard test method
- static regain method of duct sizing
- static regain method
- statistical design method
- step-by-step method
- strength design method
- strength evaluation method
- successive approximations method
- suspended cantilever method
- swamp shooting method
- Tagg method
- tangent modulus method
- test methods
- Theis method
- thixotropic liquid method
- three-point method
- tilt-up method
- time-saving method of construction
- TNO method of analysis
- TNO method of pile testing
- transit and stadia method
- tremie method
- truss analogy method
- turn-of-nut method
- ultrasonic pulse velocity method
- vacuum concrete method of bridge construction
- valveless pulse-jet method
- vane shear method
- velocity reduction method of duct sizing
- velocity reduction method
- vibratory method
- Vickers method of hardness testing
- volume method of measuring aggregates
- warm water method
- water fog spray method
- western bricklaying method
- western method
- working-stress design method
Англо-русский строительный словарь. — М.: Русский Язык. С.Н.Корчемкина, С.К.Кашкина, С.В.Курбатова. 1995.
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15 method
1) метод
2) способ
3) процедура
– ADI method
– adjoint method
– aero-projection method
– anaglyphic method
– approximate method
– area method
– averaging method
– axiomatic method
– backing-space method
– balancing method
– ball-and-ring method
– block-diagram method
– bordering method
– Borrmann method
– bottle method
– branch-and-bound method
– brittel-varnish method
– building-block method
– caisson method
– chain method
– chopped-beam method
– Clegg method
– coincidence method
– colorimetric method
– complexometric method
– conductance-measuring method
– cone method
– conjugate-gradient method
– constant-fraction method
– correlation method
– curing method
– cut-and-try method
– deductive method
– deflection method
– delta method
– Deschamps method
– diagram method
– difference method
– dilution method
– dimensional method
– direct method
– dot alloying method
– dry combustion method
– dry method
– Dumas method
– dye-penetrant method
– efflux method
– elastic method
– electrophoretic method
– empirical method
– energy method
– equal-altitude method
– equal-deflection method
– equal-strain method
– escalator method
– estimate by the method
– evaporation method
– exact method
– fall-of-charge method
– finitary method
– floatation method
– floating-zone method
– fusion method
– gradient method
– graph method
– graphical method
– gravimetric method
– gray-wedge method
– grid method
– Griess-Ilovai method
– half-deflection method
– horn-and-lens method
– immersion method
– incremental method
– indirect method
– inexact method
– interfermetric method
– inverse-scattering method
– inversion method
– isolation method
– iteration method
– kick-sorting method
– laboratory method
– load-factor method
– lobe-switching method
– lost wax method
– lumped-parameter method
– machining method
– manufacturing method
– Markowitz method
– mesh-current method
– method of angles
– method of bearings
– method of directions
– method of exhaustion
– method of gisements
– method of image
– method of images
– method of joints
– method of revolution
– method of sections
– method of superposition
– midsquare method
– mirror-image method
– momentum-transfer method
– moving-average method
– nephelometric method
– net method
– net-point method
– neutral-points method
– nodal-pair method
– node-voltage method
– non-destructive method
– non-recursive method
– null method
– numerical method
– objective method
– offset method
– offset-signal method
– operational method
– opposition method
– orthogonalized-plane-wave method
– paramagnetic-resonance method
– particle method
– particle-in-cell method
– perturbation method
– plunge-cut method
– point-by-point method
– polar method
– postulational method
– powder method
– predictor-corrector method
– processing method
– pseudoviscosity method
– pulse method
– pulse-counting method
– pulse-echo method
– pumping method
– qualitative method
– quantitative method
– radiation method
– radiometric method
– raster-scan method
– ray-trace method
– refletion method
– relaxation method
– reliability method
– resonance method
– retardation method
– root-locus method
– rotating-crystal method
– Runge-Kutta method
– saddle-point method
– sampling method
– secant method
– sedimentaion method
– semigraphical method
– separation method
– shadow method
– shake method
– shock-capturing method
– shooting method
– short-cut method
– sieve method
– similitude method
– slope-deflection method
– spectroscopic method
– spiral-scan method
– step-back method
– step-by-step method
– stroboscopic method
– stylus method
– subjective method
– substitution method
– sweep method
– test-line method
– three-base method
– time-of-flight method
– topological method
– total-strain method
– tracer method
– trial-and-error method
– triangulation method
– trilateration method
– Tukey-Cooley method
– Tukey-Sand method
– variable-phase method
– variational method
– visual method
– volumetric method
– Whitham's method
– wobbulator method
– work method
– worst-case method
– zero-beat method
alternating direction method — <math.> метод перемежающийся, метод переменных направлений, метод чередущихся направлений
alternating-variable descent method — <math.> метод покоординатного спуска
balance-chart method of planning — <econ.> метод планирования балансовый
Barrelet method of zeroes — <phys.> метод нулей Барле
baseband recording method — способ раздельной записи видеоинформации с временным уплотнением
branch and bound method — метод ветвей и границ, метод ветвления и ограничения
composite value method — <comput.> метод передачи совместных значений, метод совместных значений
differential control method — дифференцированный метод контроля
divide by differential method — делить дифференциальным методом
equal deflection method — <tech.> метод равных отклонений
false position method — <math.> метод пристрелки
Feynman diagram method — <phys.> техника диаграммная
finite element method — <math.> метод конечных элементов
Hopkinson split-bar method — метод составного стержня Гопкинсона
method of complex gradients — <math.> метод сопряженных градиентов
method of false position — <math.> метод ложного положения
method of feasible directions — <math.> метод возможных направлений
method of fraction levelling — метод нивелирования по частям
method of incremental rates — <engin.> метод относительных приростов
method of penultimate remainder — <math.> метод предпоследнего остатка
method of separation of variable — метод разделения переменных
method of steepest descent — <math.> метод наискорейшего спуска, метод скорейшего спуска
method of symmetrical components — метод симметричных составляющих
method of variation of parameters — метод вариации постоянных
moment distribution method — метод перераспределения моментов
moving average method — <math.> метод скользящих средних
reflected wave method — < radio> метод отраженных волн
regula falsa method — <math.> метод пристрелки
relative method of measurement — относительный метод измерения
spot-scan photomultiplier method — метод сканирования пятном
successive exclusion method — метод последовательных исключений
zero deflection method — <tech.> метод нулевого отклонения
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SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 11 January 1757 Englandd. 31 May 1831 London, England[br]English naval architect and engineer.[br]He was the son of Jeremiah Bentham, a lawyer. His mother died when he was an infant and his early education was at Westminster. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a master shipwright at Woolwich and later at Chatham Dockyard, where he made some small improvements in the fittings of ships. In 1778 he completed his apprenticeship and sailed on the Bienfaisant on a summer cruise of the Channel Fleet where he suggested and supervised several improvements to the steering gear and gun fittings.Unable to find suitable employment at home, he sailed for Russia to study naval architecture and shipbuilding, arriving at St Petersburg in 1780, whence he travelled throughout Russia as far as the frontier of China, examining mines and methods of working metals. He settled in Kritchev in 1782 and there established a small shipyard with a motley work-force. In 1784 he was appointed to command a battalion. He set up a yard on the "Panopticon" principle, with all workshops radiating from his own central office. He increased the armament of his ships greatly by strengthening the hulls and fitting guns without recoil, which resulted in a great victory over the Turks at Liman in 1788. For this he was awarded the Cross of St George and promoted to Brigadier- General. Soon after, he was appointed to a command in Siberia, where he was responsible for opening up the resources of the country greatly by developing river navigation.In 1791 he returned to England, where he was at first involved in the development of the Panopticon for his brother as well as with several other patents. In 1795 he was asked to look into the mechanization of the naval dockyards, and for the next eighteen years he was involved in improving methods of naval construction and machinery. He was responsible for the invention of the steam dredger, the caisson method of enclosing the entrances to docks, and the development of non-recoil cannonades of large calibre.His intervention in the maladministration of the naval dockyards resulted in an enquiry that brought about the clearing-away of much corruption, making him very unpopular. As a result he was sent to St Petersburg to arrange for the building of a number of ships for the British navy, in which the Russians had no intention of co-operating. On his return to England after two years he was told that his office of Inspector-General of Navy Works had been abolished and he was appointed to the Navy Board; he had several disagreements with John Rennie and in 1812 was told that this office, too, had been abolished. He went to live in France, where he stayed for thirteen years, returning in 1827 to arrange for the publication of some of his papers.There is some doubt about his use of his title: there is no record of his having received a knighthood in England, but it was assumed that he was authorized to use the title, granted to him in Russia, after his presentation to the Tsar in 1809.[br]Further ReadingMary Sophia Bentham, Life of Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham, K.S.G., Formerly Inspector of Naval Works (written by his wife, who died before completing it; completed by their daughter).IMcN
См. также в других словарях:
Caisson — Cais son, n. [F., fr. caisse, case, chest. See 1st {Case}.] 1. (Mil.) (a) A chest to hold ammunition. (b) A four wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
caisson disease — Caisson disease, or the bends, as the most prevalent and dangerous ailment of divers or men who work in a compressed air atmosphere is known, results when a diver who has been working under great pressure is too quickly brought to the surface and … Ballentine's law dictionary
caisson — [kā′sən, kā′sän΄] n. [Fr < It cassone < cassa, a chest < L capsa, a box, CASE2] 1. a chest for holding ammunition 2. a two wheeled wagon for transporting ammunition 3. a watertight enclosure inside which underwater construction work can… … English World dictionary
Caisson lock — A caisson lock is a type of canal lock in which a narrowboat is enclosed in a sealed box and raised or lowered between two water levels.HistoryIt was first demonstrated at Oakengates on the now lost Shropshire Canal in 1792, where its inventor,… … Wikipedia
caisson — caissoned, adj. /kay seuhn, son/, n. 1. a structure used in underwater work, consisting of an airtight chamber, open at the bottom and containing air under sufficient pressure to exclude the water. 2. a boatlike structure used as a gate for a… … Universalium
Caisson (engineering) — In geotechnical engineering, a caisson is a retaining, watertight structure used, for example, to work on the foundations of a bridge pier, for the construction of a concrete dam, or for the repair of ships. These are constructed such that the… … Wikipedia
caisson — noun Etymology: French, from Middle French, from Old Occitan, from caissa chest, from Latin capsa more at case Date: circa 1702 1. a. a chest to hold ammunition b. a usually 2 wheeled vehicle for artillery ammunition attachable … New Collegiate Dictionary
caisson — n. 1 a watertight chamber in which underwater construction work can be done. 2 a floating vessel used as a floodgate in docks. 3 an ammunition chest or wagon. Phrases and idioms: caisson disease = decompression sickness. Etymology: F (f. It.… … Useful english dictionary
caisson — cais|son [ˈkeısən, kəˈsu:n US ˈkeısa:n, sən] n [Date: 1600 1700; : French; Origin: caisse box , from Latin capsa; CASE1] 1.) a large box filled with air, that people go into to work under water, for example when building bridges 2.) a large box… … Dictionary of contemporary English
caisson — (KAY son) [French, from caisse: box; chest] A watertight chamber that makes it possible to work on underwater structures such as a bridge pier; a device to raise sunken ships. Also, a two wheeled vehicle for carrying artillery ammunition … Dictionary of foreign words and phrases
caisson — [ keɪs(ə)n, kə su:n] noun 1》 a large watertight chamber in which underwater construction work may be carried out. 2》 a vessel or watertight structure used as a gate across the entrance of a dry dock or basin. Origin C17: from Fr., lit. large… … English new terms dictionary