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Definition of Supporting structure
1. Noun. A structure that serves to support something.
Generic synonyms: Construction, Structure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supporting Structure
Literary usage of Supporting structure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elevators: A Practical Treatise on the Development and Design of Hand, Belt by John H. Jallings (1918)
"... supporting structure GUIDEWAY CONSTRUCTION Speed Factor. In the earlier days
when the elevator was not such a complicated machine as it is at the ..."
2. The Fundamentals of Psychology by Walter Bowers Pillsbury (1916)
"The ependymal or supporting structure of the embryo cord. ... This first supporting
structure takes the general form and may be said to prepare the way for ..."
3. Elements of Mining by George Joseph Young (1916)
"and of distributing the resistance of the main members of the supporting .structure
over a larger area. In the case of a given working, the pressure coming ..."
4. Economics of Bridgework: A Sequel to Bridge Engineering by John Alexander Low Waddell (1921)
"... the carrying structure, its counterweights, and such parts of the supporting
structure as must move therewith—the whole constituting a complete machine. ..."
5. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1910)
"Clearance: Insulators shall clear all parts of the supporting structure (except pins
... The conductors shall be connected to the supporting structure at an ..."
6. The Principles of Biologyby Herbert Spencer by Herbert Spencer (1867)
"It is an equally safe d, priori conclusion, that if the supporting structure,
either as a whole or in any of its parts, has to adapt itself to the ..."
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