A device for obtaining a continuous record of stage at a point on a stream. The most common recorders consist of a float-actuated pen which traces a record on a clock driven chart.

A reference sought from a bank by a company or individual regarding the creditworthiness of another.

Vietnam Register

The process of removing a power plant, apparatus, equipment, building, or facility from operation.

General name for a type of instrument which measures the inclination of the wind to the horizontal plane. See bivane.

Is the force in newton required to move a fluid layer of one square meter area and a thickness of one meter with a velocity of one meter per second.

High Capacity Passenger Vessel

System-Based Design

Digital Selective CallingGMDSS System: MF/HF/VHF facility which allows for automatic access to coast stations equipped with the system. A short list to select the quickly the nature of distress is available, unfortunately the "pirate attack" had been forg ...

Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier.

International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code

Special Periodical Survey of Hull

A sunshine recorder of the type in which the time scale is supplied by a chronograph. It consists of two bulbs, one of which is blackened, which communicate through a glass tube of small diameter. The tube is partially filled with mercury and contains two ...

Fine dust or salt particles dispersed through a portion of the atmosphere; a type of lithometer. The particles are so small they cannot be felt or seen with the naked eye. Many haze formations are caused by the presence of an abundance of condensation nuc ...

Bar charts have a wide variety of applications and in the financial markets are used by technical.

An agreement by an ocean carrier to provide cargo space on a vessel at a specified time and for a specified price to accommodate an exporter or importer.

Pertaining to measurements or devices in which the output varies continuously, i.e. voltage or rotation signals. Compare to digital.

A type of hydroturbine in which the entire generator is mounted inside the water passageway as an integral unit with the turbine. These installations can offer significant reductions in the size of the powerhouse.

A measure of the relative power, or of the relative values of two flux densities, especially of sound intensities and radar power densities. The decibel is derived from the less frequently used unit, the bel, named in honor of Alexander Graham Bell.

A reef in a spanker or fore-and-aft mainsail, which runs from the outer head-earing, diagonally, to the tack. It is the closest reef, and makes the sail triangular, or nearly so.