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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
counterbrace .
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Examples
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If a load be placed over any panel point, it causes that portion of the truss to sink, and produces an elevation of the corresponding panel point at the other end of the truss -- thus producing a distortion, which change of form is resisted by proper counterbraces.
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These counterbraces should not be pinned or bolted to the braces where the cross -- as their action is thereby entirely altered -- but it is well to so confine them as to prevent vertical or lateral motion.
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