Scope
A ship can be considered to have six degrees of freedom in its motion, i.e., it can move in any of six axes.
Three of these involve translation:
- surge (forward/astern)
- sway (starboard/port)
- heave (up/down)
and the other three rotation:
- pitch (rotation about surge axis)
- roll (rotation about sway axis)
- yaw (rotation about heave axis)
Dynamic positioning is concerned primarily with control of the ship in the horizontal plane, i.e., the three axis surge, sway and yaw.
Read more about this topic: Dynamic Positioning
Famous quotes containing the word scope:
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—Gail Hamilton (1833–1896)
“As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys—and plenty of leisure and scope to play with them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)
“Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non- participants—even women!—new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.”
—Selma James (b. 1930)