bridging
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bridging
- present participle and gerund of bridge
Adjective
[edit]bridging (not comparable)
- That acts as a bridge (in many contexts)
- 1964 May, “News and Comment: WR's new parcel traffic method”, in Modern Railways, page 300:
- Loading and unloading between platform and train are carried out at the busier stations by means of fork-lift trucks and at smaller points by bridging boards or lifting platforms.
Noun
[edit]bridging (plural bridgings)
- The act of building a bridge.
- 2007, Stanley Weintraub, 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall, page 325:
- With him were 60,000 combat engineers for multiple bridgings of the river, and hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.
- (architecture) The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.
- 1860, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, William Cunningham Glen, Handbook of Specifications, page 319:
- All the joists and bridgings of the mezzanine floor to have stout double herringbone strutting not more than 6 feet apart.