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Shipbuilding
The design, construction and maintenance of both commercial and military ships and floating vessels in shipyards or other marine facilities.
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starboard side
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The right-hand side of a ship when looking forward. Opposite to port.
camber
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The rise or crown of a deck, athwartship; also called round of beam.
fall
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The rope used with blocks to make up a tackle. The end secured to the block is called the standing part; the opposite end, the hauling part.
rail
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The rounded member at the upper edge of the bulwark, or the horizontal pipes or chains forming a fence-like railing fitted instead of a bulwark.
longitudinal loading
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The situation in which the weights along the length of a ship are not vertically in line with the buoyant supports
run
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
That part of a ship's underwater body aft of the parallel middle body or the point at which the slope of the sectional area curve is zero.
