deadweight

  • 1deadweight — dead‧weight [ˈdedweɪt] adjective TRANSPORT deadweight tons or tonnes are a measure of a ship s weight when it is empty: • The maximum size vessel that can use the Panama Canal is a ship of about 65,000 deadweight tons. * * * deadweight UK US… …

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  • 2Deadweight — may refer to: Deadweight loss, an economics concept Deadweight tonnage, a ship s carrying capacity with crew and supplies Deadweight (song), a song on Beck s 1997 album A Life Less Ordinary Deadweight (American band), a San Francisco alternative… …

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  • 3deadweight — s.n. Capacitatea maximă de încărcare a unei nave comerciale, reprezentând rezervele de combustibil, de ulei şi de apă, proviziile şi încărcătura utilă (inclusiv echipajul şi pasagerii cu bagajele lor). [pr.: dédueit] – cuv. engl. Trimis de… …

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  • 4Deadweight — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Deadweight es un single de la película A Life Less Ordinary correspondiente al cantante de indie rock Beck Hansen y fue lanzado el 27 de noviembre de 1998 a través de la discográfica Geffen. Lista de canciones… …

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  • 5deadweight — index incumbrance (burden) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 6Deadweight — es un single de la película A Life Less Ordinary correspondiente al cantante de indie rock Beck Hansen y fue lanzado el 27 de noviembre de 1998 a través de la discográfica Geffen …

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  • 7deadweight — 1650s, weight of an inert body, from DEAD (Cf. dead) + WEIGHT (Cf. weight) …

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  • 8deadweight — ► NOUN 1) the weight of an inert person or thing. 2) the total weight of cargo, stores, etc. which a ship can carry …

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  • 9Deadweight — Dead|weight 〈[dɛ̣dwɛıt] n. 15; meist Sg.; Schifffahrt〉 maximale Tragfähigkeit eines Schiffes [engl.] * * * Deadweight   [ dɛdweɪt; englisch »totes Gewicht«] das, (s)/ s, Abkürzung dw, die Masse der gesamten Zuladung (Ladefähigkeit, Tragfähigkeit) …

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  • 10deadweight — The total weight in tons (2240 lb.) that a ship carries on a specified draft including fuel, water in tanks, cargo, stores, passengers, baggage, crew and their effects, but excluding the water in the boilers. It is the difference in weight… …

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