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Definition of Breakwaters
1. breakwater [n] - See also: breakwater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breakwaters
Literary usage of Breakwaters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles and Practice of Harbour Construction by William Shield (1895)
"breakwaters may be classed generally under two main heads, viz. the vertical type
and the mound type. Of the vertical type, which must be taken to include ..."
2. Harbours and Docks: Their Physical Features, History, Construction by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1885)
"General Remarks on Upright-Wall breakwaters. THE number of harbours which have
been formed by means of upright-wall breakwaters is comparatively limited, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"We have hitherto been considering outer breakwaters erected in deep water, and
which are constantly exposed to the waves ; we now turn to piers and ..."
4. Harbours and Docks: Their Physical Features, History, Construction by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1885)
"General Remarks on Upright-Wall breakwaters. THE number of harbours which have
been formed by means of upright-wall breakwaters is comparatively limited, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Harbour Engineering by Brysson Cunningham (1908)
"Importance of breakwaters—Regime—The Sea Wave—Form, Height, and Length— Breaking
Waves—Dynamical Value—Measurement of Wave ..."
6. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1909)
"breakwaters WATERWAYS AND HARBORS breakwaters. History of the Reaction Breakwater
at Aransas Pass, Texas. Lewis M. Haupt. Maps, i oooo w. ..."
7. Achievements in Engineering During the Last Half Century by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1891)
"CHAPTER X. THE breakwaters OF TABLE BAY, ALEXANDRIA, BOULOGNE, COLOMBO, DOVER,
AND NEWHAVEN HARBOURS. THOUGH some small artificial harbours were formed in ..."
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