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Generally speaking, any wall that sustains significant lateral soil pressure is a retaining wall. However, the term is usually used with reference to a cantilever retaining wall, which is a freestanding wall without lateral support at its top.
For such a wall, the major design consideration is for the actual dimensions of the ground-level difference that the wall serves to facilitate. The range of its dimensions establishes some different categories for the retaining structure
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