metacentre

1. 1.

   (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

   Synonymsmetacenter

   Broaderintersection

   Canada · United Kingdom · shipbuilding

Other forms of metacentre

plural

metacentres·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about metacentre

What does metacentre mean?

metacentre means "(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".

How many syllables are in metacentre?

metacentre has 3 syllables: me-ta-centre. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for metacentre?

Close synonyms include metacenter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is metacentre a common word?

metacentre is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.