SHIP BUILDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ship building mean? 

• SHIP BUILDING (noun)
  The noun SHIP BUILDING has 1 sense:

1. the construction of ships

  Familiarity information: SHIP BUILDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIP BUILDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The construction of ships

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ship building; shipbuilding

Hypernyms ("ship building" is a kind of...):

building; construction (the act of constructing something)

Domain member category:

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)