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What (who) is arched abutment - definition
SPECIES OF CRUSTACEAN
Arched swimming crab
Abutment
![rail bridge]] and earthen fill of the bridge approach embankment at Old Town Station Staten Island Railway - Staten Island, New York](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Old Town Road SIRT SB stair jeh.jpg?width=200 "rail bridge]] and earthen fill of the bridge approach embankment at Old Town Station Staten Island Railway - Staten Island, New York")
![Brick abutment supporting disused tramway over the [[Yass River]] in [[Yass, New South Wales]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Railway bridge abutment riverbank park yass.JPG?width=200 "Brick abutment supporting disused tramway over the [[Yass River]] in [[Yass, New South Wales]]")
SUBSTRUCTURE AT THE ENDS OF A BRIDGE SPAN OR DAM SUPPORTING ITS SUPERSTRUCTURE
Abutments; Bridge abutments; Bridge abutment
An abutment is the substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam supporting its superstructure. Single-span bridges have abutments at each end which provide vertical and lateral support for the span, as well as acting as retaining walls to resist lateral movement of the earthen fill of the bridge approach.
Abutment
SUBSTRUCTURE AT THE ENDS OF A BRIDGE SPAN OR DAM SUPPORTING ITS SUPERSTRUCTURE
Abutments; Bridge abutments; Bridge abutment
·noun State of abutting.
II. Abutment ·noun That on or against which a body abuts or presses.
III. Abutment ·noun In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.
IV. Abutment ·noun The solid part of a pier or wall, ·etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.
V. Abutment ·noun A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, ·etc.
abutment
SUBSTRUCTURE AT THE ENDS OF A BRIDGE SPAN OR DAM SUPPORTING ITS SUPERSTRUCTURE
Abutments; Bridge abutments; Bridge abutment
n.
1.
Abutting, being contiguous or adjacent, adjoining, adjacency, contiguity, juxtaposition.
2.
Shore-pier, end-pier, terminal pier, terminal support.
Wikipedia
Callinectes arcuatus
Callinectes arcuatus is a species of swimming crab in the genus Callinectes that lives along the Pacific coast of Central America.
