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cinder block
(redirected from Concrete masonry unit)

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cinder block [′sin·dər ‚bläk]
(materials)
A hollow block made of cinder concrete.
(metallurgy)
A block which closes the front of a blast furnace, containing the cinder notch.


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Sited on lawn areas surrounding each of the centers, the installations will be made of blocks of concrete masonry unit (CMU), stacked on palettes, arranged and then painted with yellow Day-Glo paint.
A concrete masonry unit or landscape product at first glance appears simple, but the machines that make them - as well as the concrete pipe, precast, and ready-mix materials that make up buildings, homes, landscaping, and public infrastructure - are as complex as any industrial machine," said Jeff Ray, SolidWorks chief operating officer.
 
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