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Definition of Docking facility
1. Noun. Landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out. "The ship arrived at the dock more than a day late"
Specialized synonyms: Dry Dock, Drydock, Graving Dock, Marina
Generic synonyms: Landing, Landing Place
Group relationships: Harbor, Harbour, Haven, Seaport
Derivative terms: Dock, Dock, Dock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Docking Facility
Literary usage of Docking facility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cruising the Eastern Caribbean by Laura Rapp (2004)
"The modern docking facility at the Cabrits pier has a bank of public telephones
expressly for cruise ship passengers. The Cable & Wireless Company offers a ..."
2. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle by Roger E. Bilstein (1999)
"Mounted on the forward end of the S-IVB, this module was a docking facility and
airlock for the Apollo command and service modules. Because the S-IVB lacked ..."
3. Directory of Transportation Data Sources (1996)by Sarah Maccalous by Sarah Maccalous (1998)
"... Printed source Significant Features/Limitations Contains complete physical
data on each docking facility limited by knowledge of on-site informants and ..."
4. Transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers by Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (1905)
"By a study of the table, it is seen that in maximum length of docking facility,
the Baltimore dock is only exceeded by dock number 2 at Newport News, ..."
5. Federal Funding Sources for Rural Areas, 1998 edited by M. Louise Reynnells (1999)
"... (2) Gateway Intermodal Center in Los Angeles; (3) constructed Portsmouth, VA
ferry docking facility (Norfolk- Portsmouth), LRT security system and power ..."
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