Metacenter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The intersection of vertical lines through the center of buoyancy of a floating body when it is at equilibrium and when it is floating at an angle. The location of the metacenter is an indication of the stability of a floating body.
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  • n. A midway point between a ship's centre of buoyancy when upright and its centre of buoyancy when tilted; it must be above the centre of gravity to enable a tilting ship to return to an upright position.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The point at which an upward thrust could be equivalent to the pressure of water upon a floating body which has received a slight rotational displacement about one of the principal axes of its section of flotation.
  • n. In biology, an organism or an organ which, while one of the descendants from an archetype, itself becomes a new archetype around which new divergent or apocentric modifications are produced.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (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; the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the stability of the ship
    • Equivalent
    metacentre   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    intersection    point of intersection    intersection point   
    Cross Reference
    curve of metacenters   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    orthometric    dizziest    metacentric    dizzier    ever-greater   
     
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