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wetted surface

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 285 words | Copyright

wetted surface, that part of the hull of a vessel below the water level when it is upright in the water. It varies, of course, with the loading of the vessel. The wetted surface is an element of the calculations of a vessel's speed; the greater the wetted surface, the less the speed.

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