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casse di espansione

English translation: expansion boxes

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Italian term or phrase:casse di espansione
English translation:expansion boxes
Entered by: Heathcliff

07:01 Jun 8, 2001
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Science
Italian term or phrase: casse di espansione
sono consentiti interventi di ricostruzione degli equilibri naturali nonché interventi di sistemazione idraulica come argini o casse di espansione.
FEDERICA BORGINI
Local time: 03:17
expansion boxes
Explanation:
A standard term in hydrology and hydrological engineering, viz. the following citation:

"The expansion boxes and diversion boxes near the edges of the basin have been partially destroyed with only the subsurface portion of the structures still intact...."

("Argini," of course, are embankments, dykes, or levees.)

Cheers,
HC


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Heathcliff
United States
Local time: 18:17
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GRAZIE MILLE
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expansion boxes


Explanation:
A standard term in hydrology and hydrological engineering, viz. the following citation:

"The expansion boxes and diversion boxes near the edges of the basin have been partially destroyed with only the subsurface portion of the structures still intact...."

("Argini," of course, are embankments, dykes, or levees.)

Cheers,
HC





    Reference: http://www.bhi-erc.com/library/bhi/bhi00716.pdf
Heathcliff
United States
Local time: 18:17
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 504
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GRAZIE MILLE
FEDE

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