Metacentre

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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(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

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: metacenter
plural: Metacentres
possessive: Metacentre's
pluralpossessive: Metacentres'

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