box girder

1. 1.

   a beam built up from boards; has a hollow rectangular cross section

   Synonymsbox beam

   Broaderbeam

Questions about box girder

What does box girder mean?

box girder means "a beam built up from boards; has a hollow rectangular cross section".

What is another word for box girder?

Close synonyms include box beam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is box girder a common word?

box girder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.