counterfort

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A buttress built against a wall.

   “This involved new track drainage, strengthening of embankments and cuttings and the provision of counterforts.”

2. isim A spur of a mountain range.

   “With its counterforts projecting some 300 miles, [the Pamir] forms the western headland of all the plateaux and mountain systems skirting the Chinese Empire; it completely separates the two halves of Asia, and forms an almost impassable barrier to migration and warlike incursions.”