"load-bearing" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} load-bearing (not comparable)
  1. (chiefly construction and civil engineering) Able to support a load. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Construction Translations (able to support a load): kantava (Finnish), მზიდი (mzidi) (Georgian)
    Sense id: en-load-bearing-en-adj-3ffQMlae Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 40 10 Topics: business, civil-engineering, construction, engineering, manufacturing, natural-sciences, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'able to support a load': 99 1
  2. (figurative) Of a physical, digital, procedural etc. component, necessary to the integrity of the system of which it forms a part. Tags: figuratively, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-load-bearing-en-adj-JZCMMVrF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 40 10
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: load bearing

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} load-bearing (uncountable)
  1. The carrying of loads. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-load-bearing-en-noun-rch91yA3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 40 10
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: load bearing

Alternative forms

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