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Definition of Metacenters
1. metacenter [n] - See also: metacenter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metacenters
Literary usage of Metacenters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Announcement by David Nichol Smith, University of Michigan, Australian National University, Australian Humanities Research Council (1920)
"... metacenters, and trim; freeboard and tonnage; launching; calculation of bending
moments and stresses in vessels under various conditions. 3. ..."
2. Handbook of Ship Calculations, Construction and Operation: A Book of by Charles Haynes Hughes (1917)
"The procedure outlined below is the one usually employed in calculating the
displacement, centers of buoyancy and metacenters. On a profile of a vessel ..."
3. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"... metacenters, centers of gravity with varying conditions of load, etc. The vessel
is constructed throughout of steel and other fireproof materials, ..."
4. Elements of Hydraulics by Stephen Elmer Slocum (1917)
"The locus of the centers of buoyancy for all possible displacements is called
the surface of buoyancy, and the two metacenters given by Eqs. (24) and (25) ..."
5. Elements of Hydraulics by Stephen Elmer Slocum (1915)
"ments is called the surface of buoyancy, and the two metacenters given by Eqs.
(17) and (18) are the centers of curvature of its principal sections. ..."
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