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This is a glossary about nautical terms used in the marine industry.

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Created by: abbeygrech

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The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

Also called pennant and means, a length of wire or rope secured at one end to a mast or spar and having a block or other fitting at the lower end.

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

Also known as the center of buoyancy, it refers to the center of mass of the immersed part of ship or other floating object.

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

Tow-line refers to a line, hawser, or the like, by which anything (vessel) is or may be towed; another name for towrope.

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

A structural steel member, usually larger than a strut, whose main function is to withstand axial compressive stresses.

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

The horizontal distance from the center of mass of a floating body, slightly displaced from the equilibrium position, to a vertical line passing through the center of buoyancy.

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

The term 'leeway' refers to the drift of a ship or an aircraft to leeward of the course being steered.

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

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