International Association of Maritime Institutes

Lifting Appliance

The distance traveled after correction for current, leeway and other errors that may not have been included in the original distance measurement.

Quality Coordinator.

Research And Development

Society of Automotive Engineers.

Passenger/Training ship.

Upper Flammable Limit

A place for the reception, delivery, consolidation, distribution, and storage of goods/cargo.

Exploration and Production.

A severe naval punishment for serious offenses in which the victim was hauled from one yardarm to the other under the keel of the ship. The victim rarely survived; he would either be cut to ribbons by the shellfish on the ship's bottom or drown.

A cabinet bid, which is a facility enabling holders of deep out-of-the-money options to close their.

Institute Warrant Limits

Eastern Weighing and Inspection Bureau.

That which is loaded into a ship. The act of loading.

York Antwerp Rules

Resistance to air flow; usually stated in inches H2O or PSI.

Brokerage house administrative operations that support the trading of stocks and other securities..

International Association of Institutes of Navigation

Electromagnetic radiation of very short wavelength. lying within the wavelength interval of 0.1 to 1.5 angstroms (between gamma rays and ultraviolet radiation). X-rays penetrate various thicknesses of all solids, and they act on photographic plates in the ...