Wort des Tages
19 September 2026
topside
nounBauwesen
The structure and assembly of modules on the deck of any floating installation.
Warum dieses Wort
Offshore work built a vocabulary of its own. This word splits a platform into the part that floats and the part that works.
In use
Hull's done, so everything left in the yard is topside, and none of it lifts until the crane barge shows up.
Written by our editors to show how the term is used, not a recorded quotation.Quellen
- DefinitionsquelleWiktionary
- Zusätzliche QuelleTopsidesInternational Association of Drilling Contractors Lexicon