ferroconcrete

1. 1.

   concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses

   Synonymsreinforced concrete

   Broaderconcrete

Other forms of ferroconcrete

plural

ferroconcretes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ferroconcrete

What does ferroconcrete mean?

ferroconcrete means "concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses".

How many syllables are in ferroconcrete?

ferroconcrete has 4 syllables: fer-ro-con-crete. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for ferroconcrete?

Close synonyms include reinforced concrete. 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 ferroconcrete a common word?

ferroconcrete 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.