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Rfv-sense: The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. — This unsigned comment was added by MooreDoor (talk • contribs) at 15:16, 22 November 2021 (UTC).
- This hardly seems like an RfV question rather than an RfC.
- IMO, the main questions are:
- Is entrance used in this sense outside of usage in phrases such as angle of entrance or entrance angle?
- Is there a distinct, but related, maritime sense: "The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line"?
- Have either of these terms been used in aerodynamics as well as hydrodynamics?
- DCDuring (talk) 19:31, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
- Hamersly's Naval Encyclopedia has "The angle which the bow of a ship makes with the water at the line of flotation." I don't understand whether this is supposed to be an angle on the horizontal plan of the water or or in the vertical plane of the centerline of the vessel. The second seems more likely. DCDuring (talk) 17:55, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
cited Kiwima (talk) 02:52, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
- RFV-passed - I didn't think of searching for "degrees" too, I feel dumb Notusbutthem (talk) 22:58, 1 December 2021 (UTC)