Last Updated ：2025/11/20

springing

IPA(Pronunciation)

uncountable archaic countable

(uncountable) The action of the verb to spring. / (uncountable) A set of springs in a vehicle, etc. / (countable, architecture, archaic) The spring of an arch: the lowest part of an arch on both sides.

Japanese Meaning

跳ねる（跳躍する）という動作・その行為 / （自動車などで）ばね装置の一式、ばね自体 / （建築用語、古語）アーチの両端、すなわちアーチが始まる部分

What is this buttons?

The springing of the trap startled the hikers.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

罠の突然の作動がハイカーたちを驚かせた。

Details

Sense（1）

(uncountable) The action of the verb to spring.

Sense（2）

(uncountable) A set of springs in a vehicle, etc.

In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.

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Sense（3）

(countable, architecture, archaic) The spring of an arch: the lowest part of an arch on both sides.

The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings. After demolition the girders for half the new structure were erected on bedstones already built on the abutments behind the springings of the old arch.

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