See meta-centre.
·adj Adapted or used for shifting anything. II. Shifting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Shift>>. III. Shifti...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Shuffling. Tricking. Shifting cove; i.e. a person who lives by tricking. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·vi To be placed in a center; to be central. II. Centre ·noun & ·v ·see <<Center>>. III. Centre ·v...
(usually CENTER) The division of a fleet between the van and the rear of the line of battle, and b...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A term used by sailors, to signify soldiers, passengers, or any landsmen on board. ...
When by heavy rolling the ballast shifts in the hold. ...
Pigs of iron, bags of sand, &c., used for ballast, and capable of being moved to trim the vessel. Al...
One or more wooden bulk-heads in a vessel's hold, put up fore-and-aft, and firmly supported, for pre...
A bank, of which the sand, being incoherent, is subject to removal or being driven about by the viol...
Variable breezes, mostly light. ...
·add. ·- A punch for punching holes in sheet metal, having a small conical center to insure correct ...
·add. ·- A compound hydraulic valve for regulating the passage of the gas through a set of purifiers...
That point in a ship where a vertical line drawn from the centre of cavity cuts a line perpendicular...
The act of removing the blocks of a tackle to a greater distance from each other, in order to extend...
Changing its position on the capstan from right to left, or vice versâ. ...
, are synonymous terms in naval architecture for the mean centre of that part of a vessel which is i...
, or balancing point See gravity, centre of. ...
See motion (centre of). ...
The centre of gravity of a ship is that point about which all parts of the body, in any situation, b...
That point of a body which remains at rest whilst all the other parts are in motion about it: as the...
Those which can be changed from one side of a ship to the other, as the occasion demands. ...
In fortification, the angle formed at the centre of the polygon by lines drawn from thence to the po...
The difference between the true and mean anomalies of a planet. ...