(of an oil rig or watercraft) that can put much of its bulk under water
noun
2. nautical
a watercraft that can put much of its bulk under water
3. mining a shortened form of semisubmersible rig
semisubmersible in American English
(ˌsemisəbˈmɜːrsəbəl, ˌsemai-)
noun
1. Also called: semisubmersible rig
a self-propelled barge that is mounted on partially submerged legs supported by underwater pontoons, rides at anchor, and serves as a work base and living quarters in deep offshore drilling operations
adjective
2.
of, for, or pertaining to a semisubmersible
Word origin
[1960–65; semi- + submersible]This word is first recorded in the period 1960–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: deinstitutionalize, disco, parvovirus, proxemics, zip codesemi- is a combining form borrowed from Latin, meaning “half,” freely prefixed to Englishwords of any origin, now sometimes with the senses “partially,” “incompletely,” “somewhat”.Other words that use the affix semi- include: semiautomatic, semidetached, semimonthly, semisophisticated
Examples of 'semisubmersible' in a sentence
semisubmersible
This study also analyzed the equipment layout constraints and objective functions of deep-water semisubmersible drilling platforms.
Wensheng Xiao, Lei Wu, Xue Tian, Jingli Wang 2015, 'Applying a New Adaptive Genetic Algorithm to Study the Layout of Drilling Equipmentin Semisubmersible Drilling Platforms', Mathematical Problems in Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/146902. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The proposed method was evaluated by applying it to a thrust allocation problem for a semisubmersible drilling rig.
Luman Zhao, Myung-Il Roh 2015, 'A Thrust Allocation Method for Efficient Dynamic Positioning of a SemisubmersibleDrilling Rig Based on the Hybrid Optimization Algorithm', Mathematical Problems in Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/183705. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)