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单词 viatecture
释义

viatecture

English

Etymology

From Latin via (way) + -tecture, as in architecture.

Noun

viatecture (uncountable)

  1. (dated) The art of making roads or ways for travelling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc.
    • 1842, Roswell Park, Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge
      We propose the term Viatecture , as nearly synonymous with Civil Engineering , to include the construction of roads and bridges , railroads , and canals , and water works ; and the improvement of rivers ' and harbors .

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for viatecture in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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