Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The lowermost front strip or molding of a baseboard.
Wiktionary
- n. architecture The lowest projecting part of a baseboard, a pedestal or a similar construct.
- n. mathematics A certain subcollection of a topological space
Etymologies
- sub- + base (Wiktionary)
Examples
“To reduce these potential problems it requires a significant amount of subbase, detention, and underdrains to make sure the water is drained as fast as it infiltrates (and it infiltrates really, really quickly).”
Holey Concrete: Pervious Paving Reduces Stormwater Run-off | Inhabitat
“Type cold mix Width of traveled surface 20 '+ -, thickness _________, and subbase 3 crusher run cold mix, surface treat 1A limestone”
“Type cold mix Width of traveled surface 20 '+ -, thickness __________, and subbase 3.5 crusher run cold mix, surface treat 1A limestone”
“· In reasonably dry areas, with good drainage and low water tables: subbase of well compacted, clay-rich soil, covered by large sized gravel (to break capillary action), topped by small sized gravel and a layer of sand, the surface layer made of a silty soil, mixed with 5 % linseed oil and compacted with tamper or vibrator.”
“We trudge through the poorly lit halls of a deep subbase-j ment.”
“Basically they paved asphalt on dirt, with no gravel subbase.”
“I have a 'FG' w/top code which is typically the only surface I create inside my corridor, but also created a few other surfaces and added different codes (datum, subbase etc.) to compare volume entries.”
“Chester will be widened by 7 feet and have more than a foot of asphalt layers over a subbase.”
“Pervious concrete and its aggregate subbase (pavement) filter out toxins and purify stormwater," added Hein.”
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