Bridging

Quick meaning: Bridging is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of bridge.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of bridge.

More Meanings

1. That acts as a bridge (in many contexts)
2. The act of building a bridge.
3. (architecture) The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.

Example Sentences

All the joists and bridgings of the mezzanine floor to have stout double herringbone strutting not more than 6 feet apart.

With him were 60,000 combat engineers for multiple bridgings of the river, and hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.

Loading and unloading between platform and train are carried out at the busier stations by means of fork-lift trucks and at smaller points by bridging boards or lifting platforms.

Word Forms

• bridgings

Related Words

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