(engineering) A truss employing a weight-saving design based on equilateral triangles.

(engineering) A kind of truss shaped like the letter X.

plural of truss rod

(US) A truss used for roofs and bridges, having multiple diagonal members projecting down from the top of the end posts at a variety of angles to meet the bottoms of the vertical members.

In a hip roof, a minor truss used where the roof does not have its full section.

plural of jack truss