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It's called a "clear view screen" and it's sort of a high-efficiency windshield wiper (it spins at high speed) ensuring a clean view for the captain or pilot regardless of how much spray or ice or rain happens. Ships generally also have regular windscreen wipers on the other windows.
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Why are windows not round?
You are misinformed, some windows are round, eg the rose window in Notre-Dame Cathedral or ships portholes.
Window on a ship?
The round windows in staterooms or cabins on board ships are called port holes. These round windows would be kept closed when the ship is at sea, but could be opened when the ship is at anchor or docked in port.
What does maru mean on Japanese ships?
maru means round in japanese ships
What are the round things attached to the front of ship windows?
a Spiech. It is a piece of glass that spins to keep moisture and water from building up on it.
What is portholes and castles can not exist without me?
Portholes are small round windows in the huls of ships that let in light and air. Castles are defensive structures common in the middle ages. Both can and will exist without you.
What is the name of the registry editor that ships with windows?
Regedit.exe
How do observations of ships sailing out to sea support the idea of a round earth?
By the ships disappearing below the horizon
How do sailing ships provide evidence thatearth is round?
Ships can circle the world by water and end in the spot where they began, proving the Earth must be round to the contrary belief that it was flat.
What is the name of the registry editor that ships with Windows XP?
Regedit.exe
Another name for a ships window?
A porthole (generally the round ones)
What continent do ships avoid by using the Suez Canal?
by shortening the sailing time from Europe to Asia, ships do not have to sail round Africa
Why did vikings go on ships?
It was a way of getting round for them as they did not have aeroplanes cars ect...
