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load displacement

noun

Nautical.
  1. the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.

load displacement

noun

  1. nautical the total weight of a cargo vessel loaded so that its waterline reaches the summer load line
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of load displacement1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Nimitz-class supercarrier has a load displacement of nearly 100,000 tons and room for at least 70 planes, many of them longer-range.

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