BODY PLAN
A plan consisting of two half transverse elevations or enll views of a ship, both having a common vertical center line, so that the right-hand side represents the ship as seen from ahead and the left-hand side as seen from astern. On the body plan appear the forms of the various cross sections, the curvature of the deck lines at the side, and the projections as straight lines of the water lines, bow and buttock lines and the diagonal lines. | ||||
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Body plan Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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(shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length...
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body plan
body plan,..
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body plan
(shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length...
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Body plan Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Body plan
A body plan, or body form, is essentially the blueprint for the way the body of an organism is laid out. An organism's symmetry, its number of body segments and number of limbs are all aspects of its body plan. One of the key issues of developmental biology is the evolution of body plans as different as those of a starfish, a fern, or a mammal, from a common biological heritage, and in particular how radical changes in body plans have occurred over geological time.
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