shipset

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

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