metacentre (English, noun)
expansion: metacentre (plural metacentres)
Senses:
topics: natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
glosses: The point where a vertical line through a tilted vessel's center of buoyancy intersects the originally-vertical (but-now-tilted) line that passed through the center of buoyancy when the vessel was upright; it must be above the vessel's center of gravity for the vessel to have positive static stability (to tend to return to an upright orientation if rolled to one side, rather than to continue rolling to an inverted orientation).
Forms:
form: metacentres
tags: plural
form: metacenter
tags: alternative