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STIFFENING PLATE

Specialty Definition: STIFFENING PLATE

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Building & Civil Engineering

A stiffener is a small member added to a slender beam or column to prevent it buckling. In steel built-up girders it is often an angle riveted or welded vertically up the web from flange to flange. They are often placed under concentrated loads. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: STIFFENING PLATE

Language Translations for "STIFFENING PLATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

verstijving (propping, setting, stiffener, stiffening, strutting). (various references)

   

French

  

raidisseur (stiffener, Stringer). (various references)

   

German

  

Steife (starch, stiffly, stiffness), Versteifungsblech (stiffener), Aussteifung (shoring, stiffener, stiffening). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lamiera d'irrigidimento (stiffener), irrigidimento (stiffening), costola (rib). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Portuguese

  

reforço (draught, fish, fortification, intensification, shroud). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

viga de rigidez (stiffener), rigidizador (stiffener), enderezador (stiffener). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: STIFFENING PLATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-f-g-i-i-l-n-n-p-s-t-t"

-4 letters: festinating, penitential.

-5 letters: antielites, eglantines, flattening, inpatients, intestinal, lentigines, penalising, penalities, pentangles, plaintiffs, sentential, septennial, stiffening, tetanising.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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