raft foundation

1. 1.

   a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete

   Synonymsraftmat

   Broaderfoundation

Questions about raft foundation

What does raft foundation mean?

raft foundation means "a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete".

What is another word for raft foundation?

Close synonyms include raft, mat. 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 raft foundation a common word?

raft foundation 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.