metacentric

English Thesaurus

1. of or relating to the metacenter (adj.pert)

domain category	:	ship building, shipbuilding,
definition	:	the construction of ships (noun.act)

2. having two equal arms because of the median position of the centromere (adj.pert)

pertainym	:	centromere, kinetochore,
definition	:	a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape (noun.body)

3. of or relating to the metacenter (adj.pert)

pertainym	:	metacenter, metacentre,
definition	:	(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 (noun.cognition)

derivation	:	metacenter, metacentre,
definition	:	(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 (noun.cognition)

4. having two equal arms because of the median position of the centromere (adj.pert)

pertainym	:	centromere, kinetochore,
definition	:	a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape (noun.body)

5. of or relating to the metacenter (adj.pert)

pertainym	:	metacenter, metacentre,
definition	:	(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 (noun.cognition)

derivation	:	metacenter, metacentre,
definition	:	(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 (noun.cognition)