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- noun Plural form of
docking .
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Examples
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The mines were fished out and destroyed, a NATO statement said, and two dockings of ships bringing humanitarian aid to Misrata were postponed.
Gadhafi Survives NATO Missile Strike That Killed Son Richard Boudreaux 2011
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The mines were fished out and destroyed, a NATO statement said, and two dockings of ships bringing humanitarian aid to Misrata were postponed.
Gadhafi Offers Truce as NATO Bombs Tripoli Richard Boudreaux 2011
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Other daytime dockings allow for a handful of spectacular off-ship excursions to view sea eagles, visit ancient Viking sites or peer out from one of the northernmost points in mainland Europe.
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For hardcore space enthusiasts like Erin and myself the sort of people who skip meals to watch shuttle-station dockings, you know who you are, it's a passage to nerdvana.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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The 'windowed workstation', as it was initially called, was begun out of debates between two factions - one proposing extravehicular operations around the station being conducted via closed circuit TV and indirect vision, and the other proposing that direct vision by human eyeball was the only way to effectively perform EVAs, RMS, unmanned dockings, and like operations.
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Other daytime dockings allow for a handful of spectacular off-ship excursions to view sea eagles, visit ancient Viking sites or peer out from one of the northernmost points in mainland Europe.
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"We had periods, such as 2003, when just eight vessels came in all year," said Gary Nelson, executive director of the port, which is averaging six dockings a month by ocean-plying freighters this year.
Old Port Profits With New Exports Joel Millman 2011
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With dockings and greater operational capability may come docking to the evolved ISS (Beta release!)
Is the International Space Station Truly International? - NASA Watch 2009
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The mines were fished out and destroyed, a NATO statement said, and two dockings of ships bringing humanitarian aid to Misrata were postponed.
Tunisia Repels Libyan Spillover Richard Boudreaux 2011
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For hardcore space enthusiasts like Erin and myself the sort of people who skip meals to watch shuttle-station dockings, you know who you are, it's a passage to nerdvana.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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