viaduct

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But the viaduct is already under way, others argued, with the $115 million first phase to end late in 2011.

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  1. noun A series of spans or arches used to carry a road or railroad over a wide valley or over other roads or railroads.

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  • The view from the viaduct was stunning, the sides of the valley curving away at either side as though seen through a fish-eye lens. —  EQMM,July2007
  • She was looking up at a gap in the chain-link on the west side of the train viaduct, at the top, near Eleventh Avenue. —  The Bone Collector
  • The existing viaduct has been a traffic problem for large tractor-trailer trucks. —  Reader - MassLive.com
  • Although work on the viaduct is still some days away, electronic warning signs have already been put in place near Eglinton Toll.
  • It glittered like a string of stars drawn across a spider’s-web viaduct, then vanished into a tunnel, while we swept on towards the plains of La Mancha, Ropes crouched like a goblin over his wheel Rain again, blurring villages, and sweeping through the stone streets of a town: fields once more, and at last Manzanares. —  The Car of Destiny
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  1. Latin via, road; see via + (aque)duct.

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  1. = French viaduc = Spanish Portuguese viaducto, from Middle Latin viaductus, a viaduct, from Latin via, road, way, + ductus, a leading: see via and duct, and cf. aqueduct (Latin aquæ ductus), with which viaduct seems to have been confused in form.
 

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