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Definition of "ferro-concrete" []

  • Concrete strengthened by a core or foundation skeleton of iron or steel bars, strips, etc. Floors, columns, piles, water pipes, etc., have been successfully made of it. Called also armored concrete steel, and most commonly reenforced concrete. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "ferro-concrete" in a sentence
  • "The tour starts at Michelin House, Fulham Road, the curiously delightful and beautifully restored former headquarters of the Michelin Tyre Company designed by the engineer François Espinasse in a flouncy art nouveau style that belies its radical ferro-concrete structure."
  • "It proved inadequate for the expanding Goole population, so the simply gargantuan ferro-concrete tower was built next to it in 1926."
  • "Somewhere down in the Sprawl's ferro-concrete roots, a train drove a column of stale air through a tunnel."
Words like "ferro-concrete"
armored concrete steel
reenforced concrete