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means A vault is a secure, often fortified room or container for storing valuables — or, as a verb, the act of leaping over something in one bounding motion.
from From Old French 'volte' and 'volter,' to turn or leap, rooted in Latin 'volvere,' to roll or turn. The architectural sense — a curved, arched ceiling — came from the way stones 'turn' into an arch overhead; from there it slid to mean the strong, vaulted chamber beneath. The leaping sense kept closer to the turning, twisting motion of the body in flight. So the bank vault and the gymnast's vault are distant cousins, both born from the idea of something curving through the air.
- Origin
- From Latin 'volvere,' to roll or turn
- Bank doors
- Some weigh over 20 tons, yet swing easily
- Time delay
- Locks refuse to open until set hours pass
- Pole vault
- Athletes clear over six meters using one bendy stick
- Seed vault
- Norway stores millions of seeds for doomsday backup
fort knox — us military gold repository in kentucky holding 147.3 million ounces as of 2024
svalbard global seed vault — arctic seed bank in norway storing 1.7 million crop varieties since 2008
federal reserve gold vault — manhattan basement 80 feet below street level holding ~6,700 tons of gold bullion