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Panamax

Panamax adjective: of a freight ship: conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted beam, length, and draft, allowing it to transit the locks on the Panama Canal.

Adjective

Panamax (not comparable)

  1. Of a freight ship: conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted beam, length, and draft, allowing it to transit the locks on the Panama Canal.

Origin of Panamax

Blend of Panama + -max.

Words formed from Panamax

Questions about Panamax

What does Panamax mean?
Panamax means of a freight ship: conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted beam, length, and draft, allowing it to transit the locks on the Panama Canal.
What part of speech is Panamax?
Panamax is an adjective.

Words near Panamax in the dictionary

  1. Panamanian white-faced capuchins
  2. Panamanianness
  3. Panamanians
  4. Panamans
  5. panamas
  6. Panamax
  7. Panameno
  8. Panamenos
  9. panamerican
  10. panamesine
  11. panaminoglycoside

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