voussoir

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault.
    — It is the voussoir depth in a real arch which enables the arch to carry wider ranges of loading; a large number of different idealized centre-line arches can be contained within a given practical profile. ...[T]his must be so, or no mediaeval bridge would have survived its decentering.

词形变化

voussoirs plural

词源

Unadapted borrowing from French voussoir, from Old French vosoir, from Vulgar Latin *volsorium, from *volsus, from Latin volvō (“to roll”).
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