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- noun Plural form of
bulkhead .
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They tore through the ship, blasting holes in bulkheads, forcing decompression.
365 tomorrows » Swarm : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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They tore through the ship, blasting holes in bulkheads, forcing decompression.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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The same type of wide ore-body can be managed also on the filling system by the use of frequent "bulkheads" to support the ore (Fig. 31).
Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration Herbert Hoover 1919
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The run to the space station interior mixes up dramatic set-piece cinematics, such as bulkheads exploding and some of your compatriots being sucked out into space, with segments where you control Sam and head toward the station interior.
GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2010
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Then the bulkheads of the various gas-chambers must have burst, for, quite perpendicular, she fell like a plummet to the earth.
Page 7 2010
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But Suffolk, too, is counting on federal reimbursements help it through the disaster, which damaged traffic signals, eroded beaches, destroyed bulkheads and ran up overtime bills.
Long Island Tallies Cost of Irene Robbie Whelan 2011
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This is causing the M&P folks to have to pull out all the stops on using relatively new mtl and processes (common bulkheads, large one piece spun form domes FSW etc) to make US & Orion fit in the perfomance box that J2X has put them.
Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch 2009
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It took a while to thread my way down to the engine rooms, the bulkheads twisted by the explosion like crumpled card, but eventually I stood in the cavernous space.
365 tomorrows » submission : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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But those seats, typically in exit rows or bulkheads, are less numerous.
United Continental to Expand Economy Plus to Continental Jets Susan Carey 2011
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The hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops fighting the Axis powers in North Africa, the South Pacific and Europe celebrated the first global Thanksgiving as best they could, in the steel bulkheads of a warship's mess or the canvas of a jungle tent.
An English Thanksgiving, 1942 Thomas Fleming 2011
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