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Multilingual Technical Dictionary (MTD)
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Term No.Term Name/Term DescriptionAction
8007
Embankment
1 - Fill material, usually earth or rock, placed with sloping sides and usually with length greater than height. All dams are types of embankments. 2 - A man-made earth structure constructed for the purpose of impounding water. .....
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8013
Flood levee, Levee, Main Levee, Embankment, Stop bank, Dyke, Dike, Summer dike, Confinement dike, Ring dike, or Bund
1 - An artificial trapezoidal earthwork structure built along a river for the purpose of protecting adjacent land or human settlements from inundation by flood waters. The most ancient, most widespread method of flood protection. Flood levees are linear structures along a river which have the purpose of confining waters spilling from the mean-water.....
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8022
Retired embankment
An embankment built at a distance from the river edge behind the existing embankment as a second line of defence. Note : The existing embankment is sometimes called primary line of defence......
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8030
Submersible embankments (levee, dyke, dike)
Embankments along rivers that have been designed in such a way that their overtopping does not produce significant damage. Submersible embankments are constructed in the Southeastern Asian monsoon zones to check early monsoon floods so that one more crop can be grown and the negative side-effects of full flood protection can be avoided......
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