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FSA

1.Formal Safety AssessmentStudy of risks which should improve the design of ships, and also their actual maintenance.2.Fixed Securing Arrangements

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Place where a ship should report when passing i.e. when approaching a port.

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A wharf licensed and attended by Customs authorities.

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Said of a vessel when she is shipping water on deck and it is running off through scuppers and freeing ports.

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Alternating current in which three separate pulses are present, identical in frequency and voltage, but separated 120 degrees in phase.

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Being or composed of hydrocarbons or their derivatives, or matter of plant or animal origin. Contrast with inorganic.

The line to which a vessel is submerged with a full cargo on board.

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Same as instrument shelter.

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A document allowing beneficiaries to vary the gifts specified in someone's will even after the.

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DET

Detention (See DAMFORDET)

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Difference in air or gas temperature between the outlet of the intercooler and the inlet of the compressor.

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A potential more cathodic (positive) than the standard hydrogen potential.

Is a positive displacement rotary compressor.

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Gilts are fixed income or index-linked bonds issued by the UK Government.

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An assurance policy on the life of an individual where weekly or monthly premiums are regularly paid.

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The element directly responsive to the value of the measured variable.

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A carrier giving a customer illegal preference to attract cargo. This can take the form of a money refund (rebate); using lower figures than actual for the assessment of freight charges (undercubing); misdeclaration of the commodity shipped to allow the a ...

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The amount (percent) of light that is reflected by a surface relative to the amount that strikes it.

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The ratio of the minimum amount of work or energy required to perform a task to the amount actually used.

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The natural tendency of a sailboat to come up into the wind. The helm must be held over to keep the boat from coming up

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