shipbuilding

Noun
  1. The construction of ships (synset 100914653)
    associated with:
    • 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; the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the stability of the ship
    • metacentric - of or relating to the metacenter
    is a type of: building, construction - the act of constructing something
    same as: ship building

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