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    SHIPBUILDING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The construction of shipsplay

    Synonyms:

    ship building; shipbuilding

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("shipbuilding" 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)

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