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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Poured concrete containing steel bars or metal netting to increase its tensile strength.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
concrete .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Concrete having within its mass a system of iron or steel supports, such as bars, rods, or a heavy mesh, to provide increased tensile strength and shear resistance. Same as
ferro-concrete .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A building material made from
Portland cement concrete with amatrix ofsteel bars orwires (rebars ) to increase itstensile strength .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses
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