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traverse sailing

traverse sailing noun: sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship.

Noun

traverse sailing (uncountable)

  1. Sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship.

Questions about traverse sailing

What does traverse sailing mean?
Traverse sailing means sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship.
What part of speech is traverse sailing?
Traverse sailing is a noun.

Words near traverse sailing in the dictionary

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