metacentric height

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the distance between the center of gravity and the metacenter of a floating body, as of a vessel.

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Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

This is a Hollywood director at the height of his powers creating original, wildly ambitious epics.
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During the height of his disenchantment, he visited his hometown where an old friend gave him some liquid acid.
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At the height of the Soviet Union, the proletariat universally understood everything their government said was a work of fiction.
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Recipients in a cryobank can peruse donor files and see hair color, eye color, race, height, IQ, and so on.
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From the height of 700 feet, a lush uniform green obscured the destruction unfolding below him.
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All please noteHis wondrous height and girth; He has the longest legs and throatOf anything on earth.
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And now, escaped from her room, even at this height there came upon him again the hot sluggishness of London.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.
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The purpose of these larger windows is the effectual lighting of the Boardroom, which is of the height of two storeys.
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She was barely five feet five, but she ranked with tall women, her height as unchallenged as the chiselling of her profile.
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