ship_building (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *ship building*:
NOUN	act	ship building, shipbuilding	the construction of ships

English > *ship building*: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaning	The construction of ships.
Synonym	shipbuilding
Category of	metacenter, metacentre	(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
Category of	metacentric	Of or relating to the metacenter
Broader	construction, building	The act of constructing something
Spanish	construcción naval
Catalan	construcció naval

HyperDic: ship_building