A machine with a common prime mover which will provide independently the functions of either a windlass or a mooring winch (automatic or non-automatic).

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.

The purpose for which useful energy or work is consumed.

In the Far East, a warehouse where goods are stored and delivered.

Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor. A method of making silicon chips that results in low power consumption by the circuits.

To remove from a ship. To remove an item from its place.

An anchor engine used for heaving in the chain cable and anchor.

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A numbering system using a base number of 2 and having only two digits: 0 and 1. The fundamental system of representing information with electrical pulses.

Kilopascal; a metric measure of pressure based on force per unit area. (1 kPa = 4.01 inches of water).

An electronic communications or direction finding system which uses Very High Frequency radio waves. VHF radios are the most common communications radio carried on boats, but their range is usually limited to line of sight between the transmitting and rec ...

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Gross Registered Tonnage

See calorie.

A measure of proportion by weight, equivalent to one unit weight of a material per million (106) unit weights of compound. One part per million is equivalent to l mg/g

(AIM)A market for small, young and growing companies operated by the London Stock Exchange as a.

A device that cools air by removing moisture from it.

A written statement signed on oath and witnessed by a commissioner for oaths, usually a qualified.

Embrittlement of alloy steels caused by holding within or cooling slowly through a temperature range just below the transformation range. Embrittlement is the result of the segregation at grain boundaries of impurities such as arsenic, antimony, phosphoru ...

(1) Injection of air or water under high pressure through a tube to the anode area for the purpose of purging the annular space and possibly correcting high resistance caused by gas blocking. (2) In connection with boilers or cooling towers, the process o ...