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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| Language | Translations for "FRICTION BLOCKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | modstandselementer (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks). (various references) | |
Dutch | blokken (swot). (various references) | |
Finnish | este (check, fence, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, restraint), betonimonoliitti (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks), betonilohko (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks). (various references) | |
French | bloc de dissipation d'énergie. (various references) | |
German | Sohlbloecke (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks), Reibungskoerper (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks), Regelbloecke (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks), Pfeilerhindernisse (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks), Kloetze (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks), Bloecke (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks). (various references) | |
Greek | ογκόλιθοι διασκορπισμού ενεργείας (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks). (various references) | |
Italian | blocchi di dissipazione (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ictionfray ocksblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | blocos de dissipação de energia (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks). (various references) | |
Swedish | energiomvandlarfundament (baffle piers, blocks, control blocks, floor blocks). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-c-f-i-i-k-l-n-o-o-r-s-t" | |
-4 letters: coloristic, inflictors. | |
-5 letters: bootlicks, broccolis, cistronic, cocklofts, colorific, conflicts, floristic, frictions, inflictor, scoliotic, solicitor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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