Truss in a sentence as a noun

Strace, trace, truss and similar tools have been around for decades now.

An engineer learns when a fink or howe or warren truss is appropriate.

A compression member or node at the top of the truss that forms the main span seems to have failed for some reason.

"Bob the builder has made a truss, and wants to figure out the angle A. He doesn't own a protractor, and can only measure a few of the lengths.

Ktrace is a little more broad and has much different invocation; truss is most comparable on FreeBSD and SysV.

Truss in a sentence as a verb

Civil engineering culture says "it's ok to solve simple problems" not "every problem is a prototype truss design problem.

The pictured truss might be optimal under ideal conditions yet fail in spectacular ways if even a small crack or a bad weld develops somewhere.

You are asking a programmer to show you that they are competent in their daily work, but not giving them any of their tool that they work with to do so. Again it's like asking a frame carpenter to draw a truss and expecting that to somehow represent their daily activity of putting a truss together.

One confirming result was that the strongest possible homogeneous truss is cyclically tetrahedral.

It forms part of the horizontal truss above the carriageways which resists shear in the horizontal plane and therefore provides torsional stability; the bridge is effectively a braced tube, I think.

Truss definitions

noun

(medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure

noun

a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure

noun

(architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)

See also: corbel

verb

tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it

verb

secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"

See also: bind

verb

support structurally; "truss the roofs"; "trussed bridges"