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单词 finger concourse
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finger concourse
c. spec. Part of an airport terminal forming a long narrow arm projecting from the main body of the building, to which aeroplanes may be docked in order to allow passengers to embark directly from the terminal. Also attributive, as finger concourse, finger terminal, etc. Cf. finger pier n. (b) at Compounds 2a.
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1945 Architec. Rec. Apr. 84/1 Long ‘fingers’..can eventually be extended to accommodate 28 plane stations.
1951 Progressive Archit. Jan. 49 The pair of two-level ‘finger’ concourses allows passage to plane-loading points almost wholly under cover.
1965 New Statesman 20 Aug. 261/3 Half-a-dozen well-detailed finger-plan airports.
2004 R. S. Sennott Encycl. 20th-cent. Architect. I. 34/1 The terminal at London's Gatwick Airport in 1958, a rectangular building with a single finger, was the first example of a fifth-generation airport.
2005 Design Issues 21 67 The proposal wedged nine Stratocruiser-sized gates into the tight, sixteen-acre site by adopting a narrow footprint similar to other ‘finger’ terminals.
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