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gravity platform

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noun

  1. (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete

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There was not a man among us who could have handled that gravity platform indoors, not one who would have had the brash temerity to try it.

From Brigands of the Moon by Cummings, Ray

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