Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

A gun used in the life-saving services to throw a life line to a ship in distress or from ship to shore and used when a boat cannot be launched.

The lowest price at which a dealer or market maker will sell a.

The maximum stress that presumably leads to fatigue fracture in a specified number of stress cycles. If the stress is not completely reversed. the value of the mean stress. the minimum stress, or the stress ratio should also be stated. Compare with endura ...

A compressor belonging to the group of dynamic compressors. Characterized by having its flow in the axial direction.

The direct sailing line in which a racing mark or buoy can be fetched while sailing the desired course

A method of preventing oxidation of the exposed metal in structures by imposing between the structure and the ground a small electrical voltage.

Electronic Position Fixing System

Extension

An instrument, for the recording of two or more meteorological parameters, in which the ventilation is provided by a suction fan.

Marine Engine and Equipment Manufacturers Association

A generic term for liquefied and pressurized gas, ordinarily butane, propane, or a mixture of the two, contained in a cylinder for domestic use.

Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.

Measuring point for compressor acceptance test. Pressure before an orifice or nozzle, downstream of compressor discharge.

Computer Assisted Search Planning system.

See Ship's Port Agent

Any process that uses solar radiation to produce useful heat.

An instrument resulting from the combination of a thermograph and a hygrograph and furnishing, on the same chart, simultaneous time recording of ambient temperature and humidity.

The purpose for which useful energy or work is consumed.

A graph that indicates the distribution of wind speeds as a function of the cumulative number of hours that the wind speed exceeds a given wind speed in a year.