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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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filler metal
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
That part of a welding rod that melts and is deposited in a welded joint.
hull girder
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
That part of the hull structural material effective in the longitudinal strength of the ship as a whole, which may be treated as analogous to a girder.
overhang
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
That portion of a ship's bow or stern clear of the water which projects beyond the forward and after perpendiculars.
entrance
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
That portion of a ship's underwater body forward of the parallel middlebody or the point at which the slope of the sectional area curve is zero.
