A total life cycle cost divided into equal amounts.

An abbreviation for one thousand cubic feet of natural gas with a heat content of 1,000,000 Btus, or 10 therms.

Cycloidal Propeller

Infrared radiation emitted by or being propagated through the atmosphere.

An absolute temperature scale. ((

A generic term for a glazed opening that allows daylight to enter into a building and can be opened for ventilation.

A treatment of metal in a solution of a hexavalent chromium compound to produce a conversion coating consisting of trivalent and hexavalent chromium compounds.

An electrical depth sounder or fish finder that uses sound echoes to locate the depth of objects in water. It does so by timing the sound pulses.

An insurance policy arranged by either the buyer or the seller to insure goods against damage in transit. The appropriate Incoterm will determine the responsibility of the buyer or seller to arrange the insurance.

A process in which metal ions in a dilute aqueous solution are plated out on a substrate by means of autocatalytic chemical reduction.

An act of Congress (1903) prohibiting rebates, concession, misbilling, etc. and providing specific penalties for such violations.

A method for making sheets of polycrystalline silicon in which silicon dendrites are slowly withdrawn from a melt of silicon whereupon a web of silicon forms between the dendrites and solidifies as it rises from the melt and cools.

A floating log

Custom of the Port

International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union

An instrument used for the measurement of the reflecting, power (the albedo) of a surface. A pyranometer adapted for the measurement of radiation reflected from the earth's surface is sometimes employed as an albedometer.

A day for general ship cleaning.

Thread - Unified national coarse.

The downward facing structural element that is directly opposite the floor.

Member of a crew who works all day but does not keep the normal watches.