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abutment

In architecture, term denoting that part of a pier or wall which supports the sideways thrust of an arch.

abutment

In machinery, the point at which resistance is obtained. Thus the breech of a gun and the end of a steam cylinder are the abutments to the explosive or expanding force.

In civil engineering the abutment is a solid structure that resists the thrust of an arch.



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Once it chanced that I stood in the very abutment of a rainbow's arch, which filled the lower stratum of the atmosphere, tinging the grass and leaves around, and dazzling me as if I looked through colored crystal.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
The following forenoon the party reached the base of the barrier cliffs and for two days marched northward in an effort to discover a break in the frowning abutment that raised its rocky face almost perpendicularly above them, yet nowhere was there the slightest indication that the cliffs were scalable.
Out of Time's Abyss by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
The inferior mountains on each side of the pass form a sort of frame for the picture of their dread lord, and close in the view so completely that no other prominent feature in the Oberland is visible from this BONG-A-BONG; nothing withdraws the attention from the solitary grandeur of the Finsteraarhorn and the dependent spurs which form the abutments of the central peak.
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