transpool

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verb

To transfer a flexible pipeline from the manufacturer's spool to shipboard equipment ready for deployment.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbtranspool (third-person singular simple present transpools, present participle transpooling, simple past and past participle transpooled)

present singular third person transpools · participle present transpooling · participle past transpooled · past transpooled

  1. transitiveTo transfer a flexible pipeline from the manufacturer's spool to shipboard equipment ready for deployment.

    The flexible risers were transpooled and installed using CDI's state-of-the-art rigid/flexible laying carousel and tower.

    2002, Hart's E&P. - Volume 75, page 69
  2. transitiveTo transfer from one spool to another.

    It was stored statically in non-environmentally controlled conditions, moved/rotated, pressurized/depressurized and transpooled to another reel and back.

    1998, Proceedings - Offshore Technology Conference - Volume 4, page 205
    1 more example

    The modification concerned the reel mechanism inside the magazine: it uses a free-floating storage reel which fills up part of the same space which the take-up reel would with a film transpooled.

    1972, Camera - Volume 51, page 289

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