(शिप बिल्डिंग

metacentre's Usage Examples:

will move from G to G 1 the reduced distance G1G2 = c (P/W); and if B, called the centre of buoyancy, moves to B 1, along the curve of buoyancy BB 1, the normal of this curve at B 1 will be the new vertical B1G1, meeting the old vertical in a point M, the centre of curvature of BB I, called the metacentre.

The Metacentre.

Thus, for instance, the archecentric condition of any Avian structure is a metacentre of the Sauropsidan stem.

With reference to any particular group of forms such a new centre of modification may be termed a metacentre, and it is plain that the archecentre of the whole group is a metacentre of the larger group cf which the group under consideration is a branch.

metacentre's Meaning':

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