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A partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments
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bulkhead
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I have a hollow-core door in my foundation at the bottom of the bulkhead . ▪ Is it feasible to remove the bulkhead behind the foot seats? ▪ It is possible to remove the interior bulkhead but it supports the sides of the body ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breach. 2 A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft. 3 Mechanically, a partition ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., with head (n.); the first element perhaps from bulk "framework projecting in the front of a shop" (1580s), which is perhaps from Old Norse bolkr "beam, balk" (see balk (n.)).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A bulkhead is an upright wall within the hull of a ship or within the fuselage of an aeroplane . Other kinds of partition elements within a ship are decks and deckheads .
Usage examples of bulkhead.
He did not need to glance at the accelerometer mounted among the other tell-tale instruments on the bulkhead of his cabin.
The most they can manage is a sort of diagonal slouch: feet on the floor, necks bent up against the bulkhead, Acton cradling her like a living hammock.
On the starboard side of the control room, starting at the forward starboard bulkhead and wrapping around aft, was the attack center, a group of firecontrol consoles and seats for the officers manning them.
The explosive burst into a sphere of energy, blowing the aft superstructure of the destroyer into the sky, vaporizing much of the aluminum framing and bulkheads above.
Slowly Brandt climbed to the top of the sail from the aft bulkhead of the cockpit, keeping low to the top of the structure where he could see clearly yet not be picked off from the deck.
He pushed Catardi, Schultz, and Alameda into the opening and rested them against the nearly horizontal bulkheads of the command module between the panels.
Wagner, wearing the camouflage pattern coveralls and the pips of a captain of the Armee Nationale Congolaise, sat on the floor of the cabin, his back braced against the rear bulkhead.
Then the liquid reactor coolant sprayed and flooded the compartment as the number-two reactor vessel flew off its foundation and careened to the aft bulkhead, where it punctured the titanium wall.
He dashed the lantern against the far bulkhead, on the off chance that the fire would slow the darklings down, at least for a few moments.
The bulkheads were invisible beneath a dimensionless field of fierce, gray-purple light.
The new entechment platform bed stood against a bulkhead near the old, standard chair.
Monday we took the Flush out and anchored her over the wreck and worked all day in shifts, beefing up those places where Palacio thought the floatation might come busting out, and also cutting through some interior bulkheads to make a free flow of water through all the belowdecks areas, and fastening some plywood against the inside of the hull where the big hole was.
Entering my room, lighted strongly by a big bulkhead lamp swung on gimbals above my writing desk, I did not see him anywhere till he stepped out quietly from behind the coats hung in the recessed part.
Machinery, ribbed tubes, and plastic cables formed an untidy glyptic over most bulkheads.
Her decks were snowy white, and they had replaced all the woodwork in the saloon bulkhead, a beautiful piece of joinery with which even I could find no fault.