An ice coating with a consistency intermediate between glaze and rime.

Western Dredging Association

Electrolytic cleaning in which the work is the cathode.

Close beside a ship, wharf or jetty.

That fraction of annual energy demand supplied by a solar system.

European Court of Justice.

To cast overboard or off. To discard something as unwanted or burdensome. Goods or equipment may be jettisoned to lighten a ship in danger.

An insulation product composed of loose fibers or fiber pellets that are blown into building cavities or attics using special pneumatic equipment.

Institute of Civil Engineers

Marine Coastguard Agency

Sailing close-hauled

An obsolete historical term denoting a form of stress-corrosion cracking most frequently encountered in carbon steels or iron-chromium-nickel alloys that are exposed to concentrated hydroxide solutions at temperatures of 200 to 250

Subcommittee on Flag State Implementation

Machinery other than main propelling machinery that is in service when the ship is in normal service, e.g. auxiliary diesel engines, turbogenerators, hydraulic motors and pumps, compressors, boiler ventilation fans, gear pumps.

International Council of Cruise Lines

Waste Heat Boiler Survey

Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range of 4 to 400 nanometers.

A mechanical device used for air circulation and to provide cooling.

The potential of a metal surface necessary to decompose the electrolyte of a cell or a component/substance thereof.

An instrument for collecting liquid water from the atmosphere.