Bulkhead may refer to:
Structural safety devices
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Bulkhead (partition)
A bulkhead is an upright wall within the hull (watercraft), hull of a ship, within the fuselage of an airplane, or a car. Other kinds of partition elements within a ship are deck (ship), decks and deckheads.
Etymology
The word ''bulki'' meant ...
, a wall within the hull of a ship, vehicle, or container
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Torpedo bulkhead
A torpedo bulkhead is a type of naval armor common on the more heavily armored warships, especially battleships and battlecruisers of the early 20th century. It is designed to keep the ship afloat even if the hull is struck underneath the belt ...
, a type of armor plate or protective covering designed to keep a ship afloat even if the hull is struck by a shell or by a torpedo
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Bulkhead (barrier)
A bulkhead is a retaining wall, such as a bulkhead within a ship or a watershed retaining wall. It may also be used in mines to contain flooding.
Coastal bulkheads are most often referred to as seawalls, bulkheading, or riprap revetments. ...
, a retaining wall used as a form of coastal management, akin to a seawall, or as a structural device such as a bulkhead partition
*Bulkhead door, an angled door covering the exterior stairwell of a
basement
A basement is any Storey, floor of a building that is not above the grade plane. Especially in residential buildings, it often is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the Furnace (house heating), furnace, water heating, ...
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Bulkhead flatcar, a type of rolling stock designed with sturdy end-walls to prevent loads from shifting past the ends of the car
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Rear pressure bulkhead
The aft pressure bulkhead or rear pressure bulkhead is the rear component of the pressure seal in all aircraft that cruise in a tropopause zone in the Earth's atmosphere. It helps maintain pressure when stratocruising and protects the aircraft fro ...
, an airtight structural feature of an aircraft
Other
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Bulkhead, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community
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Bulkhead (''Transformers''), the name given to several fictional characters in the Transformers universes
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Bulkhead line, a method of coastal demarcation used within a legal system
See also
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