A type of photoelectric photometer used to measure high-altitude winds on the assumption that stellar scintillation is caused by atmospheric inhomogeneities being carried along by wind near the tropopause level.

Income usually relevant to two people (for example man and wife) which continues until the death of.

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

A lighted or unlighted fixed (non-floating) aid to navigation that serves as a signal or indication for guidance or warning. (Lights and daybeacons both constitute "beacons.")

A container fitted with a means of forced air ventilation.

A naval rank next below that of admiral.

An aluminum foil fabricated insulator with backings applied to provide a series of closed air spaces with highly reflective surfaces.

An agreement to hold a carrier harmless with regard to a liability.

To assemble passengers and/or crew.

A prisoner sold in the slave market. He was forced to serve in the war galleys, where he pulled on one of the oars.

Name given to the lowest deck in a ship.

A reaction in which there is a decrease in valence resulting from a gain in electrons. Contrast with oxidation.

1.Starboard Forward.2.Sparring Fitted3.Stowage Factor

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

Use of individual carrier/rail equipment through a central agency for the benefit of carriers and shippers.

An assurance policy usually taken out on two lives, typically husband and wife. Under this type of.

The relationship of flow per unit area to differential pressure across a filter medium.

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

Depositing filler metal on a surfsae by welding, spraying, or braze welding to increase resistance to abrasion, erosion, wear, galling. impact, or cavitation damage.

The distance a boat can move around its anchor. Swinging room is important because if other boats or objects are within a boat's swinging circle they may collide.