Definizione monolingua

pillar

pillar (third-person singular simple present pillars, present participle pillaring, simple past and past participle pillared)

1. To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.
   • 1910, James Morgan, Blast furnace practice:

     Insufficient penetration, or faulty distribution of the blast, may give rise to ""pillaring"" — that is, the formation of a pillar or column of cold material extending up through the middle of the hearth

   • 1996, National Academy of Engineering, First annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering, page 25:

     We discovered this new class of compounds in our search for a means of generating porosity by pillaring layered double hydroxides

   • 1998, Functional and smart materials, page 226:

     In the pillaring-grafting reaction the dimensionality increases by pillaring the organic or precursory polynuclear metal hydroxyl cations into an inorganic layer structured matrix.

   • 2004, Scott M. Auerbach; Kathleen A. Carrado, Prabir K. Dutta, Handbook of layered materials, page 261:

     It was then that scientists started to create porosity in the interlayer space of layered clays. developing the first pillared clays with pores in the larger microporous region.

pillar (plural pillars)

1. A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
2. Something resembling such a structure.

   a pillar of smoke

3. An essential part of something that provides support.

   Hes a pillar of the community.

Definizione dizionario pillar

	pilastro
	large post, often used as supporting architecture

colonna

supporto

Altri significati:

A large post, often used as supporting architecture.

center (centre)