Sailing vessel with three or more masts. Square rigged on foremast, fore and aft rigged on all others.

The amount of solar radiation striking a surface per unit of time and area.

A container designed with openings in the side and/or end walls to permit the ingress of outside air when the doors are closed.

A description of how well people in a lighted space can see to do visual tasks and how visually comfortable they feel in that space.

A lower-than-usual tariff rate assessed because a shipper offers a greater volume than specified in the tariff. The incentive rate is assessed for that portion exceeding the normal volume.

An obsolete historical term usually applied to stress-corrosion crackling of brass.

Generic term for insurance covering costs incurred due to illness, injury and.

A halo phenomenon consisting of a horizontal circle passing through the moon, corresponding to the parhelic circle through the sun. Produced by reflection of moonlight from ice crystals.

A motor in which a three phase (or any multiphase) alternating current (i.e. the working current) is supplied to iron-cored coils (or windings) within the stator. As a result, a rotating magnetic field is set up, which induces a magnetizing current in the ...

Forty Foot Equivalent Units (Containers).

See mixed potential.

A short piece of rope secured in the bow of a small boat used for making her fast.

An irrevocable letter issued for a specific amount; renews itself for the same amount over a given period.

Statement of Facts

A hole in the hull for mooring lines, cable, or chain to run through.

The condition when a perfect gas is isentropically compressed, and the gas inlet temperature and also the amount of work spent is the same for each stage.

Special Periodical Survey of Inert Gas System

The total diffuse and direct insolation on a horizontal surface, averaged over a specified period of time.

The change in heat content that occurs with a change in phase and without change in temperature.

Said of cable when it extends vertically and taut from anchor to hawsepipe.