prismatic coefficient (English, noun)
expansion: prismatic coefficient (plural prismatic coefficients)
Senses:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: The ratio between the total submerged volume of a ship's or boat's hull, on the one hand, and the product of the length of the submerged portion of the hull with the area of the largest cross-sectional slice of the submerged portion of the hull, on the other.
Forms:
form: prismatic coefficients
tags: plural