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kiriş — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • beam noun A long, sturdy length of wood, steel, or concrete used to support a structure such as a floor, roof, or ship deck.
  • chord noun Three or more musical notes played together in harmony.
  • girder noun A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
  • tendon noun A tough band of tissue that connects a muscle to a bone.

Senses

kiriş is used for these senses in English:

  • chord (rail) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
  • girder A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
  • tendon (anatomy) A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.

beam — full definition

  1. noun A long, sturdy length of wood, steel, or concrete used to support a structure such as a floor, roof, or ship deck.
  2. noun A ray or narrow stream of light.
  3. noun A wide, happy smile.
  4. verb To smile broadly and happily.
  5. verb To send out light, or to transmit signals or data wirelessly.

chord — full definition

  1. noun Three or more musical notes played together in harmony.
  2. noun A straight line segment connecting two points on a curve.

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