waterwall
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A panel on the side of a furnace consisting of multiple tubes that carry water.
noun
An architectural feature consisting of a wall down which water flows.
Example Sentences
- "The use of such tempering air has diminished greatly with the shift from refractory to waterwall incinerator construction."
- "One important industrial example involving this phenomenon is the circumferential cracking that occurs on the waterwall tubes of some supercritical coal-fired boilers, which are fired under low NOₓ combustion conditions."
- "The water is heated to a steam-water mixture in the waterwall tubes of the radiant section, and the wet steam rises to the upper drum."
- "For greater heights, an interrupted sheet, spouts, a waterwall, or a cascade will provide a display of equal or greater visibility while affording considerable energy savings, less splash, greater wind stability, and a sound quality more appropriate to confined or interior spaces."
- "The design of the waterwalls provides a dramatic environment for its intended purpose as an entrance zone, bridging together the inside of the building and the Commons and park outside."
- "The facade of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum building includes a “waterwall” made of natural limestone veneer over a CMU block wall that allows surplus rainwater from the green roof to cascade down to provide water to small planting pockets; overflow water is stored in a cistern and recirculated with solar energy to irrigate the wall and provide makeup water for the created wetland in an outdoor classroom space."