A graphical device used for the determination of the speed of the geostrophic wind from the isobar or contour-line spacing on a synoptic chart.

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Threshold stress intensity for stress-corrosion cracking. The critical stress intensity at the onset of stress-corrosion cracking under specified conditions.

Receiver(s)

Twenty Foot (Container) Equivalent

Offshore Petroleum Discharge System.

A building energy auditing technique used to determine and/or locate air leaks in a building shell or envelope.

A pin placed through the head of a rudder to prevent it from being lost.

A battery-powered electrically driven vehicle.

A boat is double banked, when two oars, one opposite the other, are pulled by men seated on the same thwart.

To heave in until the vessel is riding nearly over her anchor.

Turbulence encountered by aircraft when flying through air space devoid of clouds. Thermals and wind shear are the main causes.

A fabric, usually synthetic, used to make sails.

That part of a ship's bow where the hawse holes and hawse pipes are situated.

Deviation. Vessel departure from specified voyage course

Smooth Water Services.

Finite Element Analysis.

Ability of a metal to withstand corrosion in a given corrosion system.

Tax allowances are concessions by the Inland Revenue which can be used to reduce a person's.

To watch a vessel at anchor at the turn of tides, and cast her by the helm, and some sail if necessary, so as to keep turns out of her cables.