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Hydrostatics. The displacing of a liquid by a body immersed in or floating on it; the amount or weight of fluid so displaced by a floating body…
The internal capacity of a ship expressed in tons of 100 cubic feet (see ton, n.1 2) or 2·83 cubic metres.
= displacement tonnage at sense 4a, in 4.