MEANING
A structural partition dividing compartments in a ship, aircraft, or similar enclosure.
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Words that belong together
- watertight bulkhead
- reinforced bulkhead
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The crew sealed the watertight bulkhead behind them.
Word forms
- Base
- bulkhead
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular bulkhead; plural bulkheads. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, technology. Commonness: moderately common.
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