2. Adverb. sternwards ¹
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Definition of Sternward
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sternward
Literary usage of Sternward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Speed and Power of Ships: A Manual of Marine Propulsion by David Watson Taylor (1910)
"The actual sternward velocity of the water in the operation of actual propellers
is not easy to determine or estimate, and transverse velocity is always ..."
2. A Manual of Naval Architecture for Use of Officers of the Royal Navy by William Henry White (1900)
"a further and final sternward acceleration, while it at the same time is given a
... This combination of sternward and rotary motion must make the particles ..."
3. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"In the case of very small vessels the sternward position may be ... Further,
their first cost and subsequent efficiency is improved by the sternward ..."
4. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1901)
"definite relation to the propelling force. This sternward velocity is known as
the real slip. If a screw had no slip, there would be no ..."
5. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1901)
"A wave gives a forward pressure on the screw if the latter be beneath a crest
and sternward, if beneath a trough; (c) eddy resistance, if of appreciable ..."
6. Hydraulics by Stanley Dunkerley (1908)
"in which v, as before, represents the sternward velocity in the cylindrical ...
If v vary, so will W ; but if the wake have a uniform sternward velocity ..."
7. Hydraulics by Stanley Dunkerley (1908)
"in which v, as before, represents the sternward velocity in the cylindrical
element considered relatively to the ship. If v vary, so will <u ; but if the ..."
8. A Manual of Naval Architecture: For the Use of Officers of the Royal Navy by William Henry White (1877)
"The thrust of a screw-propeller, like that of a paddle or jet, is measured by
the sternward momentum generated in the race per second. ..."
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