discharging arch
Architecture
noun
An arch built into a wall in order to relieve a part below it from the superincumbent weight.
Origin
Late 17th century.
- audiospectrometer
- audio-tactile
- audio tape
- audio text
- audio tour
- audio-typing
- audio typist
- audiovisual
- audit
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- Audit Commission
- audit committee
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- auditionee
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- Audubon, John James
- Auerbach, Frank
- Auerbach, Red