Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Reinforced concrete; steel-concrete. See
concrete .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch. & Engin.) Concrete strengthened by a core or foundation skeleton of iron or steel bars, strips, etc. Floors, columns, piles, water pipes, etc., have been successfully made of it. Called also
armored concrete steel , and most commonlyreenforced concrete .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses
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Examples
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It proved inadequate for the expanding Goole population, so the simply gargantuan ferro-concrete tower was built next to it in 1926.
Cool Goole No 2 Peter Ashley 2008
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Somewhere down in the Sprawl's ferro-concrete roots, a train drove a column of stale air through a tunnel.
Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010
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The tour starts at Michelin House, Fulham Road, the curiously delightful and beautifully restored former headquarters of the Michelin Tyre Company designed by the engineer François Espinasse in a flouncy art nouveau style that belies its radical ferro-concrete structure.
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Then came pitch darkness as if the ferro-concrete hospital were an express train that had just rushed headlong into a tunnel. . .
The Saint of Urakami 2006
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He built the whole factory as a ferro-concrete steel-reinforced barge.
Earthquake and adobe 2003
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Main Entrance Hall and Lobby, Imperial Hotel, Tokyo (built 1923): The main finish is Greenish tuff (volcanic rock) carved in geometric patterns, and yellow brick, while ferro-concrete is used to provide structural strength.
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Into an anonymous post-war building made of ferro-concrete, made up of usagigoya, tiny rabbit-hutch apartments.
The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990
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Somewhere down in the Sprawl's ferro-concrete roots, a train drove a column of stale air through a tunnel.
Neuromancer Gibson, William, 1948- 1984
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The walls were gray ferro-concrete, interspersed with steel girders, half-emerged from the walls, like sentinels or bodybuilders.
The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983
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The new weapon was a kind of amphibious ferro-concrete tank which could move through the sea under its own power and crawl clumsily ashore over flat beaches.
Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958
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