BAFFLE PIERS

  

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BAFFLE PIERS

Specialty Definition: BAFFLE PIERS

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

Obstructions set in the path of high velocity water, such as piers, on the apron of an overflow dam, weir or drop, to dissipate energy, prevent scour downstream and also to control the position of hydraulic jump. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BAFFLE PIERS

Language Translations for "BAFFLE PIERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

modstandselementer (blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

blokken (swot). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

betonimonoliitti (blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks), betonilohko (blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks), este (check, fence, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, restraint). (various references)

   

French

  

bloc de dissipation d'énergie. (various references)

   

German

  

Bloecke (blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks), Sohlbloecke (blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks), Reibungskoerper (blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks), Regelbloecke (blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks), Pfeilerhindernisse (blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks), Kloetze (blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ογκόλιθοι διασκορπισμού ενεργείας (blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks). (various references)

   

Italian

  

blocchi di dissipazione (blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

afflebay ierspay

   

Portuguese

  

blocos de dissipação de energia (blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

energiomvandlarfundament (blocks, control blocks, floor blocks, friction blocks). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BAFFLE PIERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-f-f-i-l-p-r-s"

-2 letters: balefires.

-3 letters: afebrile, bafflers, balefire, barflies, belfries, espalier, feasible, filarees, fireable, firebase, piaffers, prefiles.

-4 letters: aperies, baffies, baffler, baffles, bailees, bailers, befleas, beleaps, beliefs, beliers, effable, fablers, faeries, farfels, febrile, felspar, ferlies, filaree, freesia, friable, frisbee, leafier, leapers, piaffer, piaffes, piffles, pilaffs, pilfers, pleaser, prefabs, prefile, prelife, presale, raffles, realise, refiles, reflies, relapse.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BAFFLE PIERS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 46 46 4C 45      50 49 45 52 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01000110 01000110 01001100 01000101 00100000 01010000 01001001 01000101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#70 &#70 &#76 &#69 &#32 &#80 &#73 &#69 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0046 0046 004C 0045      0050 0049 0045 0052 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36354040463925043395253

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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