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A U.S. Department of the Interior agency that oversees water resource management incuding the oversight and operation of numerous diversion, delivery, and storage projects the agency has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power ...
Distinct layers of stratified rock. A layer of sedimentary rock, visually separable from other layers above and below. Layers of rock.
Industry:Engineering
A layer used in a pavement system between the subgrade and base course, or between the subgrade and portland cement concrete pavement.
Industry:Engineering
A system used to monitor conditions and operate mechanical features associated with a facility from a location other than at the site.
Industry:Engineering
A bridge not located on a Federal-aid highway that is used by the public. Examination of this type of bridge is required every 3 years.
Industry:Engineering
The partial reduction of electrical voltages. A brownout results in lights dimming and motor-driven devices slowing down. See blackout.
Industry:Engineering
To burn with sudden and startling combustion. Describes explosion of black powder, as opposed to the more rapid detonation of dynamite.
Industry:Engineering
A sheet, thin zone, or facing made of a relatively impervious material such as concrete, steel, wood, plastic, etc. Also see core wall.
Industry:Engineering
The positive pole or electrode of an electrolytic system. The anode attracts negatively charged particles or ions (anions). See cathode.
Industry:Engineering
Pressure of air enveloping the earth, averaged as 14.7 psi at sea level, or 29.92 inches of mercury as measured by a standard barometer.
Industry:Engineering
The failure of a sloped bank of soil in which the movement of the soil mass does not take place along a well-defined surface of sliding.
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