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short column
noun
a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
Example Sentences
The group, dressed in heavy military gear, silently affixes the pole to a short column along the edge of the roof before quickly walking away.
Rachel Monroe has been writing this really great short column for The New Yorker online called Letters from the Southwest.
In this short column, she took us from feeling sadness and hopelessness to reflection and optimism.
Their form is innovative, a thin short column down the middle of each page, playing off the traditions of a newspaper obituary.
The collapse brought attention to the more than 600 schools on the island that shared a “short column” architectural design, which makes them vulnerable to tremors.
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