FRICTION BLOCKS

  

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FRICTION BLOCKS

Specialty Definition: FRICTION BLOCKS

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: FRICTION BLOCKS

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.

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Anagrams: FRICTION BLOCKS

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.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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