shotcrete
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shotcrete
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Blend of shot + concrete. First attested use is in a report at the 1934 convention of the American Railway Engineering Association.
noun shotcretes
- concrete conveyed through a hose and pneumatically projected at high velocity onto a surface. Shotcrete is here used as a brief descriptive term (not copyrighted) for a material consisting of portland cement, sand and water placed pneumatically by means of a machine that discharges water an pre-mixed cement and sand, under regulated pressures, through pipes or hose, and a discharge nozzle, t
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noun building material
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Talk about this word "shotcrete." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/shotcrete. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. shotcrete. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/shotcrete "shotcrete." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/shotcrete.Cite this
@misc{shotcrete_2026,
title = {shotcrete},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shotcrete},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
