floor

floor

Rigid building assembly that divides space horizontally into stories. It forms the bottom of a room. It may consist of joist-supported wood planks or panels, decking or panels supported by wood or steel beams, a slab of stone or concrete on the ground, or a reinforced-concrete slab carried by concrete beams and columns. The floor assembly must support its own dead load plus the live load of occupants, activities, and furnishings. The horizontal supports beneath its top surface—and the vertical supports into which they frame—must be sufficiently large and spaced closely enough to prevent sagging of the assembly.

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floor

1. a flat bottom surface in or on any structure

2. Nautical the bottom, or the lowermost framing members at the bottom, of a vessel

3. Politics that part of a legislative hall in which debate and other business is conducted

4. Politics the right to speak in a legislative or deliberative body (esp in the phrases get, have, or be given the floor)

5. a minimum price charged or paid

6. take the floor to begin dancing on a dance floor

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floor [flȯr]

(engineering)

The bottom, horizontal surface of an enclosed space.

(geology)

The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit, corresponding to the footwall of more steeply dipping deposits.

A horizontal, flat ore body.

(mining engineering)

Boards laid at the heading to receive blasted rocks and to facilitate ore loading.

(naval architecture)

One of a series of vertical plates extending across the bottom of a ship at right angles to the center line and forming part of the bottom framing of the hull.