Tubular /(?)/
Tu·bu·lar
Tubular
a.
- Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes.
Phrases & Compounds
- Tubular boiler
- See under Boiler.
- Tubular breathing
- a variety of respiratory sound, heard on auscultation over the lungs in certain cases of disease, resembling that produced by the air passing through the trachea.
- Tubular bridge
- a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or tube, made of iron plates riveted together, as the Victoria bridge over the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, Canada, and the Britannia bridge over the Menai Straits.
- Tubular girder
- a plate girder having two or more vertical webs with a space between them.