- Look up
Caisson or
caisson in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Caisson (French for "box") may
refer to:
Caisson (engineering), a
sealed underwater structure...
- deep. The four main
types of
caisson are box
caisson, open
caisson,
pneumatic caisson and
monolithic caisson. A box
caisson is a
prefabricated concrete...
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Caisson foundation may
refer to:
Caisson (engineering) Deep foundation, also
called a
caisson foundation This
disambiguation page
lists articles ****ociated...
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trail of an
artillery piece, or the
stock of a
field carriage such as a
caisson or
traveling forge,
allowing it to be towed. The
trail is the
hinder end...
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Suction caissons (also
referred to as
suction anchors,
suction piles or
suction buckets) are a form of
fixed platform anchor in the form of an open bottomed...
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sickness (DCS; also
called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and
caisson disease) is a
medical condition caused by
dissolved gases emerging from...
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metal caisson.
Caisson lighthouses were
developed in the late
nineteenth century as a
cheaper alternative to ****pile lighthouses. The
caisson design...
- A
caisson is a form of lock gate. It
consists of a
large floating iron or
steel box. This can be
flooded to seat the
caisson in the
opening of the dock...
- varied;
whereas in a
caisson lock, a boat lift, or on a
canal inclined plane, it is the
chamber itself (usually then
called a
caisson) that
rises and falls...
- Army Song". It is
adapted from an
earlier work from 1908
entitled "The
Caissons Go
Rolling Along",
which was in turn
incorporated into John
Philip Sousa's...
