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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stowage
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aft of him was stowage space for a collapsible dinghy, maintenance platforms and a spare propeller!
▪ Each of the crew also has two modest plastic trays for personal stowage.
▪ On deck, commitment to cruising continues - a vast centre cockpit offers comfort, security and generous stowage areas.
▪ Sleeping arrangements vary depending on the space taken up by equipment stowage.
▪ Spacious for six adults, there are three cabins, each with excellent stowage.
▪ The aft compartment of the ascent stage was used for equipment stowage.
▪ The boot is decently sized, too, and internal stowage space is generous.
▪ The removable zip bag stowage between the front seats has gone.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stowage

Stowage \Stow"age\, n.

  1. The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.

  2. Room in which things may be stowed.
    --Cook.

    In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures.
    --Addison.

  3. The state of being stowed, or put away. ``To have them in safe stowage.''
    --Shak.

  4. Things stowed or packed.
    --Beau. & Fl.

  5. Money paid for stowing goods.

Wiktionary
stowage

n. 1 A place where things are stowed. 2 Things that are stowed. 3 Amount of room for storing things. 4 A charge for stowing and storage.

WordNet
stowage

  1. n. the charge for stowing goods

  2. a room in which things are stored [syn: storeroom, storage room]

  3. the act of packing or storing away [syn: stowing]

Wikipedia
Stowage

In naval architecture, stowage is the amount of room available for stowing materials aboard a ship, tank or an airplane.

In container shipping, stowage planning refers to the arrangement of containers on board a container vessel. The stowage of a container ship involves different objectives, such as to optimize the available space and prevent damage to the goods, and more importantly, to minimize the time the vessel spending at the port port terminal. Containers will be arranged depending on their destinations (those going to the first port calls in the schedule will be placed on top), cargo weight (lighter containers are stored on top of heavier ones), cargo nature (dangerous goods containers normally are placed at the end of ship, and on upper deck to minimize the loss, in case of fire or leakage), etc.

In the past, this process was done by the ship's captain, merely based on his experience. Today, it has become more automated with optimization software.

Usage examples of "stowage".

She retrieved her mobile video chip recorder from its narrow stowage space beneath her deceleration couch and loaded a power microdot battery.

Dushau gravity in a comfortably appointed interior, fifteen red multispecies reclining chairs, adjustable light and gravity at each, ample personal cargo stowage, and a drop-platform to a cargo bay below the cabin.

Leia pulled a datapad out of the stowage slot on her seat and, with the ease of a practiced statesperson, began to make speech notes.

The stowage also held their trank weapons and darts, shelter-building materials, and medical supplies.

With a few expert pushes and tugs, Jassilane propelled himself out of the opening and turned on his checkline to collect the tool pack from a stowage compartment that had opened alongside the hatch.

Jassilane propelled himself out of the opening and turned on his checkline to collect the tool pack from a stowage compartment that had opened alongside the hatch.

He fumbled through the stowage compartment, among his clothes, for the microreader containing the report.

But while John Mangles made the stowage and provisioning of the yacht his chief business, he did not forget to fit up the rooms of Lord and Lady Glenarvan for a long voyage.

Dushau gravity in a comfortably appointed interior, fifteen red multispecies reclining chairs, adjustable light and gravity at each, ample personal cargo stowage, and a drop-platform to a cargo bay below the cabin.

Sam told Fleet Chief Chubb, 'Carry on: let's have two empty spaces next to crated stowage quick as lightning.

Weeks was in charge of the procession and Dane went to work with the cargo plan Van had left, seeing that the brilliant scarlet lengths were hoist into the lower cargo hatch and stacked according to the science of stowage.

They were outside downside ops, on the main axis, the ring was still locked, the office the other side of the corridor was a steady traffic of check-ins, crew-cargo mass-check, stowage, and scheduling last half hour before undock… it could have been Sprite's ops area—it didn't feel different, except the rowdiness of the crew coming on.

If you'll check that long, narrow stowage under the instrument board, you'll find the sword and saber, with belts.

While the French female astronaut checked the stowage of the goods, the colonel himself strapped down the un-protesting Doc, who still had the one scrap of metal cloth bound oddly around his head, the other clutched firmly in one minor arm.

Flexible response, stowage diagrams, cubic bale capacity, palletized load units, capstan shackles, arbitration clauses, lists and demands, memos and cries for judgment—his mind spun with it all as he looked out at all those ships.