suspension bridge

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suspension bridge (plural suspension bridges)

  2. A bridge whose deck or roadway is suspended from wire ropes (cables) or (for some pedestrian bridges) fibrous rope.
    Hypernyms: bridge < infrastructure
    Hyponym: swing bridge (shaky-bridge sense)
    Coordinate terms: cable-stayed bridge, catenary bridge, truss bridge, trestle bridge, lattice bridge; (movable) movable bridge, swing bridge (movable-bridge sense)

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  • In a suspension bridge, the deck is attached by vertical suspenders to thick suspension cables that from a catenary shape. By contrast, in a cable-stayed bridge, straight cables attach the deck directly to the pillars.

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