upsetting lever

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noun Naval Architecture.

the horizontal distance between the center of gravity, acting downward, and the center of buoyancy, acting upward, when they are so placed as to form a couple (upsetting couple ) tending to capsize the boat.

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How to use upsetting lever in a sentence

These are the kinds of uncomfortable and sometimes upsetting scenarios that make the two-year-old web series so enticing.
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Allende had nationalized the mines—upsetting the mine owners, who were not compensated.
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What is upsetting, especially in a book about what Dunham has “learned,” is how much weight she puts on being in a relationship.
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That is, TFA is neither a lever for dramatically improving or ruining U.S. public education.
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A feed-pump forced water into the boilers; each had a safety-valve with a lever and weight.
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It frequently leads to a player upsetting his Pedal combination when he has no desire to do so.
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The gunner's seat moved with the carriage, from which he could elevate or depress the muzzle by a lever.
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The action is Cavaill-Coll's latest improvement on the Barker pneumatic lever.
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The baboon immediately came down, and it was remarkable how he brought down the basket without upsetting it.
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