centring

We turned a little point, and came out in front of the centring.

We ran by the familiar paths into the centring.

H is now wholly covered in, and the centring is out.

There was the lower Coliseum-like centring, somewhat as I first saw it.

Each arch is constructed over a temporary falsework frame, known as a centring.

In the work in both the Preston and Oxford shows, that perceptual centring is constantly challenged.

The corbels elsewhere in the nave have an uncertain function, they possibly supported the centring over which the vault was built.

This type of bridge is suitable where a temporary centring may be erected to support the forms, reinforcing steel, and uncured concrete.

A method of combined centring and levelling for surveying instruments equipped with optimal plumb indicators.

On completion of the intended structure, the centring of whichever sort is removed, and work on pointing and other finishing continued.

The centring of the pages, the underlying layout grid, and the pan-BBC masthead are examples of this.

Mylne introduced several technical innovations, including the use of removable wedges in the centring which supported the arches during construction, making it easier to dismantle.

A common variant in this pattern is the centring of a stationary low-pressure zone to the southeast of the country, resulting in long-lasting cool, wet conditions.

By the late 1840s, English makers such as Ross, Powell and Smith; all could supply highly corrected condensers on their best stands, with proper centring and focus.

It was widely predicted by both engineers and laymen that such a structure would collapse when the wooden centring was removed, but on removal the bridge settled less than half an inch.

This lower centring was of wood, in form exactly like a Roman amphitheatre if the seats of it be circular; on this the lower or inverted brick dome was laid.

In that fatal six inches' decline of the centring, the MOON had been launched upon the ways just as George had intended that it should be when he was ready.

Over time the southernmost parts of Sumerian Mesopotamia suffered from increased salinity of the soils, leading to a slow urban decline and a centring of power in Akkad, further north.

Design and calculation of Centring : Séjourné demonstrated the value of constructing arches by parallel sections, so that the centering only had to support the weight of the section under construction.

The district with the most poor people was virtually the ancient Liberty of St Edmund, later to become the county of West Suffolk, which has always possessed a unity of its own centring on the town of Bury.

The arch soffit (the curved underside) is drawn out into a flat plane, a parallelogram grid drawn on this, and then these diagonal lines (each one representing an arch slice) transferred to the centring of the constructed arch.

At the Sumerian Royal Cemetery of Ur, a "complete rubble dome built over a timber centring" was found among the chambers of the tombs for Meskalamdug and Puabi, dating to around 2500 BC.

The romans used this technique to limit the cost of the centring but since the Renaissance period it had become standard to make centring that could support the full load of the arch and construct the arch in one go.

As the principles were not completely understood the work continued to prove difficult and its imminent collapse was solemnly predicted right up until the time, a few days before the opening of the branch, the centring was removed and the crown of the arch settled by less than half an inch (13 mm).