Buttress (disambiguation)

A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall.

Buttress may also refer to:

Architectural design

• Buttressed core, structural system for high buildings
• Flying buttress, form of buttress with a ramping arch
• Buttress dam, a dam that uses buttresses as a form of support

Natural landforms

• Angino Buttress, buttress type mountain
• Buchia Buttress, rock buttress
• Cockscomb Buttress, isolated rock buttress
• Duseberg Buttress, rock buttress
• Fang Buttress, rock buttress
• Ferrell Buttress, rock buttress
• Frog Buttress, cliff on the north-west side of Mount French
• Hayduta Buttress, rounded ice-covered buttress
• Henriksen Buttress, rock buttress
• Ilchev Buttress, ice-covered buttress
• Jenny Buttress, rock buttress
• Kardam Buttress, sloping ice-covered buttress
• Kenderova Buttress, ice-covered ridge
• Mezzo Buttress, rocky buttress
• Mitino Buttress, rounded ice-covered buttress
• Sauria Buttress, rock buttress
• Palindrome Buttress, rock buttress
• Paroriya Buttress, ice-covered ridge
• Robertson Buttress, rock buttress
• Shapkarev Buttress, rounded ice-covered buttress
• Stamp Buttress, rock buttress
• Sumgin Buttress, elevated rock
• Sørlle Buttress, mountain between Mount Spaaman and Three Brothers
• Taylor Buttresses, oval shaped, whale-back shaped hill on three buttresses
• Travnik Buttress, ice-covered ridge
• Vittoria Buttress, rock cliff

Surname

• Donald Buttress, English architect
• Mike Buttress (born 1958), English former footballer
• Jim Buttress (born 1945), British horticulturalist and gardener
• William Buttress (1827-1866), English cricketer
• Wolfgang Buttress (born 1965), English artist

Other uses

• Buttress root, large roots on all sides of a tree
• Buttress thread, screw thread profile with an asymmetric square/slanted shape
• USS Buttress, auxiliary minelayer
• Buttress, Saskatchewan, defunct aerodrome in Saskatchewan, Canada