Eastern Dredging Association

Hull and Machinery

A term used in company accounts where income is due or a cost is incurred during an accounting.

A material that extracts one or more substances from a fluid (gas or liquid) medium on contact, and which changes physically and/or chemically in the process. The less volatile of the two working fluids in an absorption cooling device.

Within

All Going Well

F3C Radio transmission designator.Facsimile transmission using frequency modulation, with a single channel containing analogue information.(ALRS)

Maintenance And Repair

Alongside

ACRONYM - National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors.

Center Aft

A statement by a commodity broker to a client when a futures transaction is closed out. Sometimes.

Booking Note

Forming a conversion coating on a metal surface by anodic oxidation; most frequently applied to aluminum.

Double Acting.

Upper Explosive Limit

The gradual degradation or alteration of a material by contact with substances present in the atmosphere, such as oxygen. carbon dioxide, water vapor, and sulfur and chlorine compounds.

J2B Radio transmission designator>br>Telegraphy (automatic reception of), single-sideband (suppressed carrier) with a single channel containing quantized or digital information with the use of a modulating sub-carrier. (ALRS)

In general, any self-recording instrument carried aloft by any means to obtain meteorological data.

A partially raised deck over the engine and boiler rooms, always around the smokestack, to let the hot air and fumes escape.