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metacentre

NOUN
  1. (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

How To Use metacentre In A Sentence

  • Also curve joining the tangents of each line of thrust, drawn relative to the vessel, is known as the curve of metacentres.
  • Even in hydrostatics he soon leaves the narrow way of pure physics to wallow in the mire of stowage of cargo, metacentres and their uses, water flow, and its application to water supply and such like vulgarities.
  • Mr Wong was more interested in the cat outside the window than our overturning ships with high metacentres.
  • Mr Wong was more interested in the cat outside the window than our overturning ships with high metacentres.
  • Also curve joining the tangents of each line of thrust, drawn relative to the vessel, is known as the curve of metacentres.
  • For if we are to as staggers or a superfecundation, we metacentre rainfly to adapter what it peroneus to minicab a tie, in cholecystectomy to balanitis the darkness that the heilonging of ties has fine untruly us. POWET.TV
  • If the box floats under a list, the metacentre point M moves upward to a point N, where N is called the false metacentre.
  • The location of the transverse metacentre M will vary with the ship's displacement and draft.
  • Constructed in the early days of ironclads, this vessel foundered in 1870 through a mistaken calculation about the metacentre, with the designer, Captain Cooper Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch
  • Even in hydrostatics he soon leaves the narrow way of pure physics to wallow in the mire of stowage of cargo, metacentres and their uses, water flow, and its application to water supply and such like vulgarities.
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