METACENTRIC • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Metacentric

... ordinates the various lengths of the levers, at the end of which the whole weight of the vessel is acting to right itself. The curve may be constructed in the following manner: Having found by calculation the position of the transverse metacenter, M, for a given displacement—Figs. 1 and 2—the metacentric height, G M, is then determined either by calculations, or more correctly by experiment, by varying the position of weights of known magnitude, or by the stability indicator itself. Suppose, now, the vessel to be listed over to various ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 • Various