¶ Size
Index Entry
Size:
“size, we fourfold its rate of expenditure of energy but we eightfold its payload capacity. A ship’s size is popularly thought of in terms of her length. Therefore it comes as a surprise that a man with a ship twice the length of another’s can make eight times as much profit. That is why shipowners and sailors talk to one another in terms of tonnages, which is based on volumetric displacement of water by weight.”
¶ Citations
- WORD MEANINGS, “Ekistics,” Vol. #28, Oct’69
