reserve buoyancy
nounNautical.
the difference between the volume of a hull below the designed waterline and the volume of the hull below the lowest opening incapable of being made watertight.
Origin of reserve buoyancy
1First recorded in 1900–05
Words Nearby reserve buoyancy
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How to use reserve buoyancy in a sentence
When full, we still have three hundred pounds reserve buoyancy, and would have to go ahead and steer down.
The Wreck of the Titan | Morgan Robertson
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