Caisson (French for "box") may refer to: *

Caisson (Asian architecture) The caisson (), also referred to as a caisson ceiling, or ''spider web ceiling'', in East Asian architecture is an architectural feature typically found in the ceiling of temples and palaces, usually at the centre and directly above the main thron ...

, a spider web ceiling *

Caisson (engineering) In geotechnical engineering, a caisson ( or ; borrowed from French ''caisson'', from Italian ''cassone'', meaning ''large box'', an augmentative of ''cassa'') is a watertight retaining structure used, for example, to work on the foundations of a ...

, a sealed underwater structure *

Caisson (lock gate) A caisson is a form of lock gate. It consists of a large floating iron or steel box. This can be flooded to seat the caisson in the opening of the dock to close it, or pumped dry to float it and allow it to be towed clear of the dock. Chevron ...

, a gate for a dock or lock, constructed as a floating caisson *

Caisson (pen name) Edward J Sperling (1889 – July 22, 1946), born Ezra Sperling, was a 20th-century writer, humourist, and Zionist. Early life Ezra Sperling was born in 1889 in a Jewish community in Slutsk, Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. As a boy, he ...

, of Edward Sperling *

Caisson (western architecture) A coffer (or coffering) in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault. A series of these sunken panels was often used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault, also c ...

, a type of coffer *

Caisson disease Decompression sickness (abbreviated DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases emerging from solution as bubbles inside the body tissues during decompressio ...

, or decompression sickness *

Caisson lock The caisson lock is a type of canal lock in which a narrowboat is floated into a sealed watertight box and raised or lowered between two different canal water levels. It was invented in the late 18th century as a solution to the problem posed ...

, a type of canal lock *

Deep foundation A deep foundation is a type of foundation that transfers building loads to the earth farther down from the surface than a shallow foundation does to a subsurface layer or a range of depths. A pile or piling is a vertical structural element ...

, also called a caisson foundation *

Limbers and caissons A limber is a two-wheeled cart designed to support the trail of an artillery piece, or the stock of a field carriage such as a caisson or traveling forge, allowing it to be towed. The trail is the hinder end of the stock of a gun-carriage, which ...

, a two-wheeled cart for carrying ammunition, also used in certain state and military funerals

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