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SHIP BUILDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The construction of ships
Synonyms:
ship building; shipbuilding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ship building" is a kind of...):
building; construction (the act of constructing something)
Domain member category:
metacenter; metacentre ((shipbuilding) the point of intersection between two vertical lines, one line through the center of buoyancy of the hull of a ship in equilibrium and the other line through the center of buoyancy of the hull when the ship is inclined to one side; the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the stability of the ship)
metacentric (of or relating to the metacenter)
