MONOBUOY


Meaning of MONOBUOY in English

/mon"euh booh'ee, -boy'/ , n. Naut.

a floating platform anchored offshore in deep water and equipped with pipelines leading to storage tanks onshore, to which large, deep-draft tankers moor to load or unload. Also called single buoy mooring, single point mooring .

[ 1970-75; MONO- + BUOY ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .