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Definitions for Shipbuilding
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. shipbuilding, ship buildingnoun

    the construction of ships

Wiktionary

  1. shipbuildingnoun

    The construction of ships.

  2. shipbuildingnoun

    A construction of a ship.

Wikipedia

  1. Shipbuilding

    Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history. Shipbuilding and ship repairs, both commercial and military, are referred to as "naval engineering". The construction of boats is a similar activity called boat building. The dismantling of ships is called ship breaking.

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  1. shipbuilding

    Shipbuilding refers to the construction of ships and other floating vessels. It involves a range of activities, from the design and assembly of individual components to the final assembly of the entire vessel. The process also includes the repair, maintenance and upgrading of ships. It takes place in specialized facilities known as shipyards. Shipbuilding involves various procedures like engineering, material procurement, ship design, fabrication, testing, quality assessment, and launching. The ships may be built for commercial, military or recreational purposes.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Shipbuildingnoun

    naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels

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  1. Shipbuilding

    Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history. Shipbuilding and ship repairs, both commercial and military, are referred to as "naval engineering". The construction of boats is a similar activity called boat building. The dismantling of ships is called ship breaking.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Shipbuilding in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Shipbuilding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Shipbuilding in a Sentence

  1. Kwon Min-ho:

    Past strong shipbuilding growth made us lax in finding ways for the tourists to spend money here instead of driving through.

  2. Blake Herzinger:

    This seems unfortunately common, that Navy leadership throws stones at real or imagined faults in Chinese shipbuilding rather than reckoning with US failures over two decades to conceptualize, design and build ships for its own navy.

  3. Secretary Ray Mabus:

    As we welcome USS Jackson to the fleet, we are reminded of the importance of the partnership between our Navy and our nation's shipbuilding industry, we also celebrate the lasting bond this ship will share with the great people of Jackson, Mississippi, as it sails the globe, providing a presence that only our Navy and Marine Corps can maintain.

  4. Don Shomette:

    Within a year we had a million men building ships, cutting the timber, mining the iron for them, building the machinery for them. At one point we became the greatest shipbuilding nation in the history of the world, we had to create from nothing a shipping industry that was going to build a thousand wooden ships in 18 months -- normally it would take a year and a half to build a wooden steam ship.

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