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[math] People from County Kilkenny, Ireland. == See also == ...
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[architecture] A Vault (French. voûte, Italian. volta,) is an architectural term for an arched form used to provide a space with a ceiling or roof. The parts of a vault exert lateral thrust that require a counter resistance. When vaults are built underground, the ground gives all the resist...
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In architecture, a vault is literally an arched roof. The term is also used for a chamber with such a roof and, as these are often underground, it has come to be used for cellars where wine is stored.
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[revision control system] Vault is a commercial, proprietary revision control system by SourceGear LLC which markets its product as a replacement for Microsoft`s Visual Source Safe. The Vault revision control system uses Microsoft SQL Server as a back end database and provides atomic commits...
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[comics] The Vault is the widely used nickname of a fictional defunct prison facility for technological-based superhuman criminals (predominantly supervillains) in Marvel Comics. The prison`s full official name is the United States Maximum Security Installation for the Incarceration of Super...
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[soda] Original work by Jim Irwin, December 2005. Map of Washington in Warren County, New Jersey. ...
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[sculpture] Vault is a public sculpture located in Melbourne, Australia. The work of sculptor Ron Robertson-Swann, Vault is an abstract, minimalist sculpture built of large thick flat polygonal sheets of prefabricated steel, assembled in a way that suggests dynamic movement. It is painted ye...
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[soft drink] Vault was a carbonated beverage that was released by The Coca-Cola Company in June 2005. It was touted as an artificially flavored hybrid energy soda. Coca-Cola was marketing Vault as a combination with the slogan "Drinks like a Soda, Kicks like an Energy Drink," as well as "The...
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Stone roofing.
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[Noun] Plural form: vaults. A place under a church where people are buried or valuable objects are kept.
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[n] - a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables 2. [n] - a burial chamber (usually underground) 3. [n] - an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof 4. [n] - the act of jumping over an obstacle 5. [v] - jump across or leap over (an obstacle) 6...
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arched roof or ceiling of stone and mortar, usually supported by ribs
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An arched, stone roof.
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In architecture, a continuous arch of brick, stone, or concrete, forming a self-supporting roof over a building or part of a building; also a vaulted structure, for example...
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An arched roof which evolved from the joining of 2 Roman arches.
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Either (a) the arched ceiling over a void, or (b) any space covered by arches.
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an arched ceiling or roof, usually of stone, brick, or concrete, which in its most basic form, is a continuous semi-circular arch ie a tunnel. As romanesque evolved into gothic and the pointed arch, vault construction became very sophisticated and because of its fireproof potential, compa...
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An arched ceiling of stone.
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An arched cover for an enclosed space. The simplest form of vault is supported on each side by a continuous wall, and is known as a barrel vault. Most barrel vaults are round-arched, but a few are pointed-arched. In more complex vaults there is a framework of dressed-stone ribs, acting as a frame, w...
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A ceiling or roof formed by one or more arches, usually made out of wood or stone.
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In architecture, a vault is an arched roof or covering of masonry construction, made of stone, brick, or concrete. There are several type of vaults. A barrel (or tunnel) vault is semi-cylindrical in cross-section. A groin or cross vault consists of two barrel vaults that intersect each other at righ...
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(1) Arched stone roof ; (2) a burial chamber. See Barrel Vault, Fan Vault, Rib Vault ,Tierceron Vault
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Large cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein particle that has an eight-fold symmetry with a central pore and petal-like structures giving the appearence of an octagonal dome. May be related to the central plug of the nuclear pore complex.
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Vault (valt; see Note, below ) noun [ Middle English voute , Old French voute , volte , French voûte , Late Latin volta , for voluta , volutio , from Latin volvere , volutum , t...
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