voussoir

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault.

   “It is the voussoir depth in a real arch which enables the arch to carry wider ranges of loading; a large number of different idealized centre-line arches can be contained within a given practical profile. ...[T]his must be so, or no mediaeval bridge would have survived its decentering.”