block model
block model noun: a scale model of a ship to be built, showing the vessel's water line.
Noun
block model (plural block models)
- A scale model of a ship to be built, showing the vessel's water line.
- ...the young shipwright is next desired to prepare a block model to the timbers, which, if correctly proportioned, will displace water equal to the weight of the vessel...1827, "Naval Architecture", Mechanics Magazine, volume 6, page 35
- A simplified model of a ship with flat sides.
- To show more clearly the relation of the block model to that of the actual ship, I have selected No. 4 in the Table...1880, A.C. Kirk, “On a Method of Analyzing the Form of Ships”, in Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, volume 21, page 100
- No attempt in this direction has, as yet, met with the general favour which Dr. Kirk's block model analysis has secured.1890, Henry West, “Inaugural Address”, in Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society, volume 11, page 15
- A model of a network made by dividing it into blocks
Forms of block model
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Questions about block model
- What does block model mean?
- Block model means a scale model of a ship to be built, showing the vessel's water line.
- What part of speech is block model?
- Block model is a noun.
- What is the plural of block model?
- The plural of block model is block models.
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