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Synonyms for overhang

project (over)

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  • project (over)
  • extend (over)
  • loom (over)
  • stand out (over)
  • bulge (over)
  • stick out (over)
  • protrude (over)
  • jut (over)
  • impend (over)
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Synonyms for overhang

to curve outward past the normal or usual limit

a part that protrudes or extends outward

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Synonyms for overhang

projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else

project over

be suspended over or hang over

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Given the apparent need for shading, two systems were analyzed - a) automated top-down roller shades (baseline system) and b) a combined dynamic shading system consisting of an overhang, an internal tiltable fabric light shelf and automated bottom-up roller shades (advanced system).
One reason that is often cited is overhang, the idea that the excess, or overhang, of structures that have been built in the past is now holding investment down.
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But the plot's limited dimensions prohibit a building with floorplates sizeable enough to accommodate the kind of trading floors that JP Morgan Chase would want to install without cantilevering the tower's floors so that they overhang surrounding space.
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At times the atmosphere in this huge building with its 12-meter walls, some bulging with improbable and seemingly impossible overhangs,others steep and sheer, is a cross between a gym, a nightclub and an outdoor crag.
Roof overhangs or trellises provide the solution to shading these windows, and are sized so that most or all of the high summer sun is blocked out, while much of the low winter sun is allowed in (see sidebar on page 8), keeping things cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
For starters, the design team at Perkins Eastman Architects' Pittsburgh office, which handled architecture and interior design on the project, added two wings totaling 80,000 square feet, distinguished by flag brick cladding and deep roof overhangs. The addition incorporates skilled nursing and assisted living dementia units, completing the community's continuum of care.
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Thus, four artificial ledges were available within each ledge cluster: narrow-upper and wide-upper ledges that lacked artificial overhangs, and narrow-lower and wide-lower ledges that were located beneath upper ledges, which provided partial (45%) and complete (100%) overhang coverage, respectively.
In the 16 years the Lawsons have lived in the shade of its large lacy leaves, the tree's two trunks have spread one foot apart, adding to its girth but threatening someday to block the road it overhangs. Rather than accept offers to trim it back, Lawson plans to guy the trunks together to fend off challengers to its champion status.