shipset

shipset
 n.— «Last year, the aircraft division managed to increase the manufacture of “shipsets”—aviation parlance for a set of right and left hand doors—for the Airbus A320.» —“Civilian orders dominate HAL exports” domain-B (Mumbai, India) July 23, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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