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overstow

verb

Etymology

From over- + stow.

  1. derived from *steh₂-✻ — “to stand, place, put”
  2. inherited from *stōō✻ — “a place, stowage”
  3. inherited from *stōu✻
  4. inherited from stōw — “place, location”
  5. inherited from stowe
  6. prefixed as overstow — “over + stow”

Definitions

  1. To stow on top of one another.

    • A preferred stow is to level in lower hold spaces and overstow by other suitable cargoes.

  2. The act of stowing cargo on top of other cargo.

    • The type of overstow described above is the most common type of overstow fault.
    • A two stage approach was developed: in the first stage two objective functions were considered, one to minimize the number of bays packed by containers and the other to minimize the number of overstows.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA