01 n. A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a…
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1.
A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.
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2.
Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
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The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.(Mus.)
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A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.(Elec.)
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A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall. Also: bridge wall
Phrases & compounds
Aqueduct bridge —
See Aqueduct.
Bridge of a steamer —
a narrow platform across the deck, above the rail, for the convenience of the officer in charge of the ship; in paddlewheel vessels it connects the paddle boxes.
Bridge of the nose —
the upper, bony part of the nose.
Cantalever bridge —
See under Cantalever.
Draw bridge —
See Drawbridge.
Flying bridge —
a temporary bridge suspended or floating, as for the passage of armies; also, a floating structure connected by a cable with an anchor or pier up stream, and made to pass from bank to bank by the action of the current or other means.
Girder bridge —
a bridge formed by girders, or by trusses resting upon abutments or piers.
Lattice bridge —
a bridge formed by lattice girders.
Pontoon bridge —
See under Pontoon.
Skew bridge —
a bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway engineering.
Suspension bridge —
See under Suspension.
Trestle bridge —
a bridge formed of a series of short, simple girders resting on trestles.
Tubular bridge —
a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or rectangular tube, with cellular walls made of iron plates riveted together, as the Britannia bridge over the Menai Strait, and the Victoria bridge at Montreal.
Wheatstone's bridge —
a device for the measurement of resistances, so called because the balance between the resistances to be measured is indicated by the absence of a current in a certain wire forming a bridge or connection between two points of the apparatus; -- invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone.