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Naval architecture
The engineering science dealing with the design, construction, maintenance and operation of marine vessels and structures.
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pitching
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The oscillatory (teeter-totter) motion of a vessel, with bow and stern moving vertically in opposite directions.
margin plate
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The outboard strake of the inner bottom. When the margin plate is turned down at the bilge it forms the outboard boundary of the double bottom, connecting the inner bottom to the shell plating at the ...
boottop
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The outer surface of the shell plating between light and load waterlines.
fantail
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The overhanging stern section of ships with round or elliptical after endings to uppermost decks and which extend well abaft the after perpendicular. Also called counter.
joiner work ceiling
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The overhead finished surface in quarters, etc.
flange
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The part of a plate or shape bent at right angles to the main part; also to bend over to form an angle.
