Definition of Righting

1. Verb. (present participle of right) ¹

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Definition of Righting

1. right [v] - See also: right

Lexicographical Neighbors of Righting

righter than rain
righters
rightest
righteye flounder
righteyed flounder
rightful
rightful(a)
rightfully
rightfulness
rightfulnesses
righthand
righthanded
righthander
rightie
righties
righting (current term)
righting reflexes
rightings
rightio
rightish
rightism
rightisms
rightist
rightists
rightless
rightly
rightmost
rightness
rightnesses
righto

Literary usage of Righting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Some of these boats, intended for use in localities where the temperature of the water will not permit of frequent upsetting and righting drills, ..."

2. Know Your Own Ship: A Simple Explanation of the Stability, Trim by Thomas Walton (1899)
"The righting Lever.—In Chapter II. we explained the meaning of a foot-ton—viz., ... Now, if we say that a vessel of 1000 tons displacement has a righting ..."

3. Calculations in Hydraulic Engineering: A Practical Text-book for the Use of by Thomas Claxton Fidler (1898)
"Diagram of righting Moments.—Having traced the curve of buoyancy and drawn the normals Bm through the successive positions of B, the righting moment exerted ..."

4. Calculations in Hydraulic Engineering: A Practical Text-book for the Use of by Thomas Claxton Fidler (1898)
"Diagram of righting Moments.—Having traced the curve of buoyancy and drawn the normals Bm through the successive positions of B, the righting moment exerted ..."

5. History of the Life-boat, and Its Work by Richard Lewis (1874)
"^ELF-righting.—We come now to the fourth property, that of self-righting if upset. This, although a most important principle, is not universal in Life-boats ..."

6. Aeroplanes in Gusts: Soaring Flight and the Stability of Aeroplanes by S. L. Walkden (1913)
"THE righting EFFECT OF LATERAL MASSES' In fig. 65, I., a tilted main plane is shown flying towards us and circling with radius R. In order that we may deal ..."

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