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BUOYANCY TANK

Specialty Definition: BUOYANCY TANK

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Food & Agriculture

One of the metal or wooden watertight cases fitted inside a lifeboat to provide increased buoyancy and prevent the boat from sinking if filled with water. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: BUOYANCY TANK

Expression using "BUOYANCY TANK": air case buoyancy tank. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BUOYANCY TANK

Language Translations for "BUOYANCY TANK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

luftkasse (air case, air chamber, air tank, boat tank). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bootstank (air case, air tank, boat tank), luchttank (air case, air tank, boat tank), luchtkast (air case, air tank, boat tank). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kelluntasäiliö (air case, air tank, boat tank). (various references)

   

French

  

compartiment air, caisson air, caisse de flottabilité. (various references)

   

German

  

Bootstank (air case, air tank, boat tank), Luftkasten (air case, air chamber, air tank, boat tank), luftkammer (gas chamber, head space in a bottle of wine, inner tube, tube). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στεγανό κιβώτιο (air case, air tank, boat tank), αεροκιβώτιο (air case buoyancy tank, air vessel), αεροθάλαμος (air case, air chamber, air house, air supported composite structure, air tank, air vessel, air-bottle pressure dumper, balloon, boat tank, gas chamber, inner tube, pneumatically supported composite structure, tube). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cassa d'aria (air case, air chamber, air tank, boat tank). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uoyancybay anktay

   

Portuguese

  

caixa de ar (air case, air tank, blast box, boat tank, wind box). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

caja de flotabilidad de bote (air case, air tank, boat tank), caja de aire (air case, air tank, blast box, boat tank, wind box), cámara de aire (air chamber, bladder, inner tube, innertube, tube). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BUOYANCY TANK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-k-n-n-o-t-u-y-y"

-4 letters: buoyancy.

-5 letters: backout, bannock, buoyant, cutbank, nunatak, outback.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Expressions
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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