[ adj ] constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) <adj.all>
Tubular \Tu"bu*lar\, a. [L. tubulus, dim. of tubus a tube, or pipe. See {Tube}.] Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes.
{Tubular boiler}. See under {Boiler}.
{Tubular breathing} (Med.), a variety of respiratory sound, heard on auscultation over the lungs in certain cases of disease, resembling that produced by the air passing through the trachea.
{Tubular bridge}, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or tube, made of iron plates riveted together, as the Victoria bridge over the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, Canada, and the Britannia bridge over the Menai Straits.
{Tubular girder}, a plate girder having two or more vertical webs with a space between them.
There would be a knock-on effect for tubular prices. Mr Shore said he viewed the price increases with optimism.
L.B. Foster makes, fabricates and distributes construction, rail and tubular products.
Mannesmann is a maker of steel pipe and tubular products.
There have also been hefty increases in prices of the tubular goods and pipe couplings needed to drill wells because so few producers still make them.
The works include bent-wood chairs designed by Michael Thonet and Josef Hoffmann, bent tubular steel chairs by Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and plywood chairs by Alvar Aalto and Charles and Ray Eames.
L.B. Foster operates three major businesses: construction, rail and tubular products; architectural hardware for commercial construction, and banking equipment.
The birds had been drugged and placed in tubular wire mesh cages inside a suitcase, he said, adding that police also recovered a dead baby crocodile.
Grain elevators built in the 1920s and '30s have six-inch concrete walls and a tubular shape that would easily contain semicircular cells with a control point in the middle, the New York firm says.
He said USX last increased prices for so-called oil-field country tubular goods in August 1987.
The sale completes divestiture of steel operations that Cleveland-based LTV Steel had sought in its plan to emerge from reorganization as a smaller company concentrating on flat-rolled and tubular products, LTV Corp.
The Federal Home Loan Bank Board, regulators of the thrift industry, said the merger was conducted in conjunction with a subsidiary of Lone Star Technologies Inc. of Dallas, one of the world's leading manufacturers of tubular pipe.
Unzip the side panel of several models of Lowe or Wolfskin cases and suddenly you have a rucksack with comfortable interior tubular frame and padded shoulder straps.
The maker of construction, rail and tubular products said the change in the opinion was made in an amended annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company and its subsidiaries manufacture steam-generating equipment, defense products, tubular products and process control systems.
The loss was blamed on poor demand for its tubular products, used in the oil industry.