Flooding vs Bulkhead - What's the difference?
flooding | bulkhead |
An act of flooding; a flood or gush.
* (Mark Twain)
(nautical) A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.
A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft.
Mechanically, a partition or panel through which connectors pass, or a connector designed to pass through a partition.
A pressure-resistant sealed barrier to any fluid in a large structure.
A retaining wall along a waterfront.
As nouns the difference between flooding and bulkhead
is that flooding is an act of flooding; a flood or gush while bulkhead is a vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.As a verb flooding
is present participle of lang=en.flooding
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(en noun)- And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!
