caisson|caissons in English

noun

[cais·son || kə'suːn]

watertight chamber for working underwater; ammunition cart

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1. Dictionary entry overview: What does Caisson mean? • Caisson (noun) The noun Caisson has 4 senses:

2. Some Caissons can be open-air Caissons, whereas others may use compressed air to keep the mud and water out.

3. Caisson drilling is a specific style of creating structural foundations by which boreholes called Caissons (sometimes called drilled piers because of their cylindrical shape) are drilled into the ground and then filled with concrete and reinforcing materials.

4. NCTA Caisson Unit, Summerfield, North Carolina

5. Called also Caisson disease and divers' paralysis

6. Caissons are constructed in such a way that the

7. Basically, the word Caisson means a box-type structure.

8. The schematic diagram for open Caissons is shown in Fig.1.

9. Caissons come in many sizes and shapes depending on their future use.

10. The main differences between pier, pile & Caisson foundation are given below.

11. This page shows answers to the clue Bends, followed by 5 definitions like “Colloquialism for caisson sickness”, “Colloquism for caisson sickness” and “See Decompression sickness”

12. Caisson Labs is an ideal partner for orders of any size

13. Subpart S provides the standards for underground construction, caissons, Cofferdams, and compressed air

14. Wounded men... were clinging to caissons, to which were attached frightened and wounded horses....

15. Caissons are often employed to prevent a house from sinking or sliding down a hill

16. 5 synonyms for Bends: caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism, aeroembolism, air embolism

17. The FFFM hearth includes the mounting of padded caissons on the refractory masonry surface and embedded ones - into the hearth masonry at the depth of 10-12 gages of air tuyeres of embedded caissons.

18. The Caisson is sunk in place as grab buckets through water remove soil

19. The NC Trooper’s Association in Cooperation with the NC Highway Patrol provide our Caisson Unit …

20. The sunken panels were sometimes also called caissons, or lacunaria, and a Coffered ceiling might be referred to as lacunar.

21. Louis) and the Brooklyn Bridge (New York City) were testing grounds for Caisson construction

22. Caisson, in engineering, boxlike structure used in construction work underwater or as a foundation

23. These Caissons were enormous compressed air boxes used to build riverine piers and abutments anchoring the bridges.

24. Caisson meant faster and cheaper construction, but there was a hidden … The Eads Bridge (St

25. A Caisson is a watertight structure which is used as an “anchor” for a foundation