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main and hull
For example, a main battle tank will usually have the heaviest armour on the hull front and the turret, lighter armour on the sides of the hull and the thinnest armour on the top and bottom of the tank.
This features a main artillery gun, mounted in a fully rotating turret atop a tracked automotive hull, with various additional machine guns throughout.
The hull is the main structural component of the boat which actually provides buoyancy for the boat.
On these vehicles, the hull deck comprises the main portion of the tread way while ramps extend from the front and rear of the vehicle to allow other vehicles to climb over the bridging vehicle and cross obstacles.
The ships followed a design by Laubeuf first used successfully in 1897, having a double hull and flotation tanks around the outside of the main crew compartments.
Multihulls include: Proas, which have two differently shaped or sized hulls with lateral symmetry ; catamarans, which have two hulls with longitudinal symmetry ; and trimarans, which have a main hull in the center and symmetric stabilizing hulls on either side.
The term vaka, like the related terms aka and ama, come from the Malay and Micronesian language group terms for parts of the outrigger canoe, and vaka can be roughly translated as canoe or main hull.
The vaka is the main hull, the ama is the outrigger, and the aka or iako ( Hawaiian ) is the support connecting the two ( not three ) hulls.
* Vaka-A proa consists of a vaka, the main canoe-like hull ; an ama, the outrigger ; and akas, the poles connecting the ama to the vaka.
The gap between the turret and hull was sealed with an inflatable hose while the main gun mantlet, commander ’ s cupola and radio operator ’ s machine gun were given special rubber coverings.
Worf takes the opportunity to surprise Nero, cutting into the Narada's hull and fighting his way to the main bridge for a confrontation with Nero.
A more powerful Cardassian ship is the Keldon class starship ( which is similar to the Galor-class with more defined aft wings and a large trapezoidal pod atop the main hull ).
A " conning tower " was a feature of earlier designs: a separate pressure hull above the main body of the boat that allowed the use of shorter periscopes.
The traditional bottom is made from planks laid fore and aft and not transverse, although some hulls have a second set of planks laid over the first in a pattern that is crosswise to the main hull for additional wear and strength.
The main distinguishing features are a smooth, white yacht-like hull and a large counter-stern providing a quiet seating area away from the sail winch and any quanting activity.
With the engine in front, this layout gives additional protection against a frontal attack, especially for the personnel in the main hull, like the driver.
Forty-nine main armament rounds are carried in the turret and hull ; these are a mix of L27A1 APFSDS ( also referred to as CHARM 3 ), L31 HESH and L34 white phosphorus smoke rounds, depending on the situation.
Example of a galvanic anode on the hull of a ship. A galvanic anode is the main component of a galvanic cathodic protection ( CP ) system used to protect buried or submerged metal structures from corrosion.
Pulses with their outer hull intact are also quite popular in India and Pakistan as the main cuisine.
: New main gun, stabilizer, sights, and fire control, capable of firing 9M119 Svir guided missile, Super Dolly Parton armour including of appliqué armour in the front of hull, improved engine.
Both prototype series used the same turret design from Krupp ; the main differences were in the hull, transmission, suspension and automotive features.
The term vaka, like the related terms aka and ama, come from the Malay and Micronesian language group terms for parts of the outrigger canoe, and vaka can be roughly translated as canoe or main hull.
The vaka is the main hull, the ama is the outrigger, and the aka or iako ( Hawaiian ) is the support connecting the two ( not three ) hulls.

main and came
The main question of this school was whether Being came before Not-Being ( in Chinese, ming and wuming ).
But as computer main memory in a binary-addressed system is manufactured in sizes that were easily expressed as multiples of 1024, kilobyte, when applied to computer memory, came to be used to mean 1024 bytes instead of 1000.
The coalition's main chance came in 62 BC, when the Greek cities rebelled against Roman rule.
It was presented by a newspresenter, and came from the main News channel studio.
The main question of this school was whether Being came before Not-Being ( in Chinese, ming and wuming ).
The main question of this school was whether Being came before Not-Being ( in Chinese, ming and wuming ).
The Church Father Epiphanius ( writing in the 4th century CE ) seems to make a distinction between two main groups within the Essenes: " Of those that came before his an Ossaean prophet time and during it, the Ossaeans and the Nazarean .".
A new constitution came into force on 1 January 2009 which modernised the Chapter on fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, embedding self-determination in the main body of the constitution.
A seminal work by Dyson came in 1966 when, together with Andrew Lenard and independently of Elliott H. Lieb and Walter Thirring, he proved rigorously that the exclusion principle plays the main role in the stability of bulk matter.
LaGuardia came to office in January 1934 with five main goals:
Hydro-metallurgical, and magnetic separation methods were also tried, but the main breakthrough came in 1902 when Delprat and Potter independently devised processes that would eventually be patented as the Delprat-Potter method.
The name evidently later came to be used for the estuary's main channel.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and more recently, the 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union, the main waves of migration came from the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe ( especially Romania, Albania, Ukraine and Poland ).
Until the Nazis came to power, Goebbels had been a relatively poor man, and his main income was the salary of 750 Reichsmarks a month he had gained by election to the Reichstag in 1928.
He came to see the lethargic and demoralized Göring, still Germany ’ s economic supremo as head of the Four Year Plan Ministry, as his main enemy.
The damage came from three main effects: blast, fire, and radiation.
One of the main characters, Callista Larkadia, is a bounty hunter who came from a wealthy family on Mars.
During the late Middle Ages it was an independent commune with considerable importance owing to its location on the old Via Francigena, the main road between France and Rome, but increasingly Montalcino came under the sway of the larger and more aggressive city of Siena.
Verbs came in nine main conjugations ( seven strong and two weak ), each with numerous subtypes, as well as a few additional smaller conjugations and a handful of irregular verbs.
Since the main object of the king in holding a national assembly was to collect money, the Church could not be left out and so they came to Parliament.
For much of the Qing Dynasty's history, the government's main source of revenue came from taxation on landownership supplemented by official monopolies on essential household items such as salt and tea.
The main task of this collegiate foundation, Quedlinburg Abbey ( where the Annals of Quedlinburg were compiled ), was to pray for the memory of King Henry and the rulers that came after him.
From their cultures came one of the main staples of the Southern diet: corn ( maize ) – either ground into meal or limed with an alkaline salt to make hominy, in a Native American technology known as nixtamalization.
Justin Martyr ( in his Apologies, and in a lost work against heresies, which Irenaeus used as his main source ) and Irenaeus ( Adversus Haereses ) record that after being cast out by the Apostles he came to Rome where, having joined to himself a profligate woman of the name of Helen, he gave out that it was he who appeared among the Jews as the Son, in Samaria as the Father and among other nations as the Holy Spirit.

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