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open-web

American

[o-puhn-web] / ˈɒ pənˈwɛb /

adjective

having a web of zigzag or crisscross lacing.

Etymology

Origin of open-web

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

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Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP With a flurry of attempts to tighten up regulation of the internet in the past year, open-web advocates have understandably become wary of lawmakers' meddling.

From The Guardian

Ms. Bestor points out that borderline-industrial elements, such as plywood panels and metal open-web trusses, lend an informal, countercultural air to this modernist cabin in Bend, Ore., designed by architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.

From The Wall Street Journal

All of the mechanical trades love open-web floor trusses.

From Seattle Times

The theory of the open-web girder, assuming the verticals to be hinged at their lower ends, applies to the concrete beam reinforced with stirrups.

From Project Gutenberg

By an open-web girder, the speaker means a girder which has a lower and upper chord connected by verticals.

From Project Gutenberg

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