transpool
transpool verb: to transfer a flexible pipeline from the manufacturer's spool to shipboard equipment ready for deployment.
Verb
transpool (third-person singular simple present transpools, present participle transpooling, simple past and past participle transpooled)
- To transfer a flexible pipeline from the manufacturer's spool to shipboard equipment ready for deployment.
- The flexible risers were transpooled and installed using CDI's state-of-the-art rigid/flexible laying carousel and tower.2002, Hart's E&P. - Volume 75, page 69
- To transfer from one spool to another.
- It was stored statically in non-environmentally controlled conditions, moved/rotated, pressurized/depressurized and transpooled to another reel and back.1998, Proceedings - Offshore Technology Conference - Volume 4, page 205
- The modification concerned the reel mechanism inside the magazine: it uses a free-floating storage reel which fills up part of the same space which the take-up reel would with a film transpooled.1972, Camera - Volume 51, page 289
Forms of transpool
| third-person singular present | transpools |
|---|---|
| present participle | transpooling |
| past participle | transpooled |
| past | transpooled |
Origin of transpool
From tran- + spool.
Questions about transpool
- What does transpool mean?
- Transpool means to transfer a flexible pipeline from the manufacturer's spool to shipboard equipment ready for deployment.
- What part of speech is transpool?
- Transpool is a verb.
- What is the past tense of transpool?
- The past tense of transpool is transpooled.
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