bridgehead
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English
Etymology
Calque of French tête de pont, equivalent to bridge + head.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒhɛd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
bridgehead (plural bridgeheads)
- An area around the end of a bridge.
- (military) A fortification around the end of a bridge.
- (military) An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.
- 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 243:
- He believed the invasion would happen elsewhere and it wasn't until late in the afternoon and long after the Allied forces had established a bridgehead that Hitler was convinced of the need to do something.
- (physical chemistry) Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge of two or more other atoms
Related terms
- (military): beachhead
- (chemistry): dibridgehead
Translations
area around the end of a bridge
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fortification
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area of ground on the enemy's side of an obstacle
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