Weight of the goods alone without any immediate wrappings, e.g., the weight of the contents of a tin can without the weight of the can.

Alternatively letting the sails draw, then spilling wind so as to keep a vessel more or less in one place until space is available, marking time.

Electroplating tin on an object.

U.S. Customs' automated program under AMS. It allows for electronic reporting of inbound (foreign) cargoes in the U.S.

The white froth on the crests of waves.

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A thermometer with a muslin-covered bulb which is moistened. used to measure wet-bulb temperature.

(1) The initial component or the sensing element of a measuring system. For example, the receiver of a rain gauge is the funnel which captures the rain and the receiver of a thermoelectric thermometer is the measuring thermocouple. (2) An instrument used ...

A line led to a sail, but is not currently in use. The line currently in use is known as the working sheet. Usually the working and lazy sheets change when the boat is tacked.

IMO performance standard for ECDIS

A term indicating a temperature relationship between two temperatures or temperature variation between two points.

A sailing ship with three to five masts, all of them square-rigged except the after mast, which is fore-and-aft rigged.

The compression of an air actuator (air spring) below its design height.

Part of a computer word that has meaning in itself, often, a byte.

Random Access Memory. The memory of a computer which can be read and written into at any location without passing through preceding locations.

Carefully (watch what you're doing).

The sum of all the costs both recurring and nonrecurring, related to a product, structure, system, or service during its life span or specified time period.

Fuel gas with a heating value of between 200 and 300 Btu per cubic foot.

Aging induced by rapid cooling after solution heat treatment.

A construction element used for ceiling support.