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ferroconcrete
[ fer-oh-kon-kreet, -kong-, -kon-kreet, -kong- ]
ferroconcrete
/ ˌfɛrəʊˈkɒŋkriːt /
noun
- another name for reinforced concrete
Word History and Origins
Origin of ferroconcrete1
Example Sentences
Originally Clyde’s Cleaners, built in 1946 to serve Lower Queen Anne Hill, the building was refashioned in 1984 into the ferroconcrete mound popularly known as The Blob.
The boat was part of an emergency fleet of 24 ships made out of ferroconcrete and commissioned by Emergency Fleet Corportation during World War I, the Washington Post reports.
Millions have been spent on Sebenico, and it has been so fortified as to be absolutely impregnable from the sea, even the rocks facing the harbor having been cased in ferroconcrete and turned into forts.
They occupied a large building constructed of ferroconcrete, on each floor of which, except the first, there was accommodation for hundreds of clerks.
Floodlights spilled brilliance over the dunes and the scrubby earth, high fences casting laced shadows across the burning white expanses of ferroconcrete.
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