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| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Modern wall cladding, often framed in light alloy and consisting of two or more layers of opaque glass or other lightweight fire resistant sheet material. It can be erected quickly after the floors and clamped to the columns or floor slabs, and is therefore convenient for multi-storey buildings. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military | A parapet connecting bastions or batteries in a line of entrenchments. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CURTAIN WALL |
| Specialty definitions using "CURTAIN WALL": Caponière. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Bauhaus design problem for one-bedroom courtyard house; site plan, floor plan, and perspective elevation showing the bedroom partition and living room seen through glass curtain wall, and covered outdoor living area. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Country | Name |
| Japan | Takahashi Curtain Wall Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
curtain wall | 85 |
glazed curtain wall | 13 |
aluminum curtain wall | 7 |
glass curtain wall | 7 |
australia curtain wall | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CURTAIN WALL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Arabic | ستار (cover, curtain, pretext, screen). (various references) | ||||
French | mur rideau. (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | カーソル強調 (car chase, car train, card, card loan, card system, cardigan, cardinal, cart, carton, cartoon, cartridge, curd, cursored emphasis, curtain, curtain antenna, curtain call, curtain lecture, passenger and freight train). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | カーテンウォール . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | urtaincay allway | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-l-n-r-t-u-w" | |
-3 letters: nautical. | |
-4 letters: actinal, ancilla, anticar, antiwar, callant, carinal, cranial, curtail, curtain, lacunal, lacunar, lanital, lunatic, natural. | |
-5 letters: acinar, actual, alular, antiar, antral, anural, anuria, anuric, arnica, atrial, atwain, callan, canula, carina, carlin, carnal, catlin, citral, clinal, crania, curial, curtal, incult, inwall, lacuna, laical, lariat, latria, narial, narwal, nutria, racial, ranula, ratlin, rictal, ritual. | |
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