what does metacentre mean?
METACENTRE as NOUN
- Meaning
- (shipbuilding) the point of intersection between two vertical lines, one line through the center of buoyancy of the hull of a ship in equilibrium and the other line through the center of buoyancy of the hull when the ship is inclined to one side
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Synonym(s)
Hypernyms(s) metacentre is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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