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| Noun | 1. |  ship building - the construction of ships construction, building - the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats" 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 |
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