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counterbrace

American  
[koun-ter-breys] / ˈkaʊn tərˌbreɪs /

noun

Engineering, Building Trades.

  1. a web member of a truss subject to tension or compression under varying conditions.

Etymology

Origin of counterbrace

First recorded in 1815–25; counter- + brace

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