The word
"superstructure" refers to the part of a building or a construction that is above its foundation. It includes things like walls, floors, roofs, and other elements that are built on top of the base to complete or support the structure.
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I appreciate that cost and down - time are important factors in bridge building, but spread over generations relatively small investments
in superstructure can have a positive effect on community pride, maybe even tourism.
In a Hermeneutic way because it provides direct involvement in human volunteering groups that allow you to recognize and interpret the consequences that society exercises as
superstructure on specific groups, and how they react to it.
• Extra-thick, rugged steel
superstructure for better strength • Preinstalled universal adapter fits most wiper arms directly
The discovery of ordered, segregation - induced
superstructures at general grain boundaries challenges a traditional view in physical metallurgy
These and other experts installed 3,800 species of life inside, even as cranes lifted great sections of white
superstructure into place overhead.
The
whole superstructure of the Catholic Church is the problem, a form of hierarchical governance that puts the Church in direct and immediate conflict with everything that Jesus stood for:
Workers will replace support steel that dates back to the 1920s, upgrade the MetroLink track system, and blast and paint the entire
superstructure with a protective coating to prevent future rust.
• Rubber boot helps prevent snow and ice buildup • Riveted
steel superstructure for strength and durability • Design allows for low connection point for hook arms and wipe stability for all wiper arm types
Here, a traditional view is that these high - angle general grain boundaries may not undergo interfacial reconstructions to form
ordered superstructures because a lattice match between the two abutting grains is lacking.
Researchers observed and investigated segregation -
induced superstructures at randomly - selected general grain boundaries of a Ni - Bi polycrystalline alloy via aberration - corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (AC STEM), in conjunction with first - principles density functional theory calculations.
Some are «L - type worlds» with
superstructures like Gödel's L, differing only in the range of extra levels of infinity they contain; others have wildly varying architectural styles with completely different levels and infinite staircases leading in all sorts of directions.
Subsequently, the whole
social superstructure is reconstituted to reflect and guarantee the interests of all mankind rather than those of the privileged few.
Must be gigantic, considering his credits include things like the British pavilion at the 1957 Brussels Expo — where Britain's white - hot hopes for its fusion machine, Zeta, fizzled out just before the show opened — as well as the
entire superstructure of the liner QE2.
An even greater cost - saving measure involved adapting the existing raft foundations for the
new superstructure, saving a further # 750,000.
Thus, rather than building its
theological superstructure on the ashes of a rebutted theism, religious humanism grounds itself in a principle that obtains whether God is or is not, whether the Transcendent is good, indifferent or demonic, and whether God is or is not the creator of humankind.
According to Panoz LLC's Director of Product Planning / Engineering John M. Leverett, the development team retained important and proven lightweight measures such as using SPF (Superplastic Forming) aluminum body panels and Panoz LLC's patented modular extruded aluminum chassis with a light - but - strong carbon
fiber superstructure.
They rather surround art with interpretation, analysis and a host of other elaborations which have become part of a gigantic verbal
superstructure designed to make art more comfortable — and profitable.
Containers and columns for
larger superstructures, they resemble ancient, microwaved versions of our present - day data towers — unearthed repositories, perhaps, or photon - broiled supports for a mysterious but ruined civilization.
The structure is completed with highly modified stampings sourced from various suppliers, in - house tubular - steel subframes and carbon - fiber
composite superstructures.
Due to the elaborate regulation logic and sensor system, the Adaptive M suspension is able to achieve
superstructure cohesion and increased comfort at the same time.
My experience encompasses all stages of the construction process from excavation and site work
through superstructure enclosure, finishes and equipment installation in a variety of areas including new / renovation commercial, multi-family residential and heavy - civil projects.
Recent additions to the REIT structure include billboards and related
sign superstructures, floating gaming facilities, racking / shelving for computer servers and document storage, cell towers and electricity transmission lines.
Some have oversimplified the reality this word signifies and considered it a kind of
superstructure placed on top of human nature, ending up with a form of dualism of nature and grace.
In similar work, the team defended ThyssenKrupp GfT Gleistechnik against damage claims brought by Deutsche Bahn together with regional transport companies and
superstructure material buyers.
Paving and
superstructure work has been completed and the roadway paved, but much remains to be done.
The largest observable structure in the universe is a
massive superstructure of galaxies more than 10 billion light years across known as the Hercules - Corona Borealis Great Wall.
It would be much easier if the creditors and investors in junk mortgages and junk bonds took their losses, and if the $ 450 billion in
derivative superstructure simply was let go.
Not only loss of breath but loss of blood means death, and this fact was seized upon by the early Hebrews, as by other peoples, as the basis of an
elaborate superstructure of religious ritual.
And while the religious foundations for such an orientation are crumbling, the
ethical superstructure has remained.
Love - making and baby - making can, in fact, be separated, and that means inevitably that the whole
superstructure set up in order to keep babies from being born out of marriage no longer possesses the same urgency, and consequently, no longer can undergird sexual practices with the same power.
This attitude toward physical life that made a virtue out of repression was thus embraced by a moralistic Christianity to become the powerful,
controlling superstructure that held the sexual drives of human beings in check.
This vagueness in the
ideational superstructure paid off at the organizational level too, for it meant, among other things, that men and women with new angles of interpretation were able to jockey for dominance and rise to the top.
These conceptualizations may be a convenient tool for investigating nature, but Mays questions «whether Whitehead's account of «metaphysical necessity,» or «the necessary connections within the flux,» refers to anything more than this
conceptual superstructure» (PW 100/105).