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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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midship half length
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Half the length of a ship with its center at the ship's mid-length.
parabolic
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Having the form of a parabola. In non-technical terms, a curve of uniformly changing radius.
slamming
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Heavy impact resulting from a vessel's bottom near the bow making sudden contact with the sea surface after having risen on a wave. Similar action results from rapid immersion of ...
frame
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A term used to designate one of the transverse members that make up the rib-like part of the skeleton of a ship. The frames act as stiffeners, holding the outside plating in shape ...
mock-up
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A three dimensional full size replica of the shape of a portion of a vessel, used where the geometry makes fabrication of steel members from conventional templates difficult, or ...
beam seas
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A train of waves approaching a vessel directly from one side.
