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transpool en · VERB

Etymology

From tran- + spool.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To 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. (transitive) To 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:
   • 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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