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short column
noun
- a column whose relative dimensions ensure that when it is overloaded it fails by crushing, rather than buckling
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The group, dressed in heavy military gear, silently affixes the pole to a short column along the edge of the roof before quickly walking away.
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Rachel Monroe has been writing this really great short column for The New Yorker online called Letters from the Southwest.
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In this short column, she took us from feeling sadness and hopelessness to reflection and optimism.
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Their form is innovative, a thin short column down the middle of each page, playing off the traditions of a newspaper obituary.
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The collapse brought attention to the more than 600 schools on the island that shared a “short column†architectural design, which makes them vulnerable to tremors.
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