Cooperative Working Agreements

An embargo imposed by a Government against another country.

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A phrase with a nautical derivation, meaning a man under the influence of drink or unsteadiness through drink.

To attain headway (to get going or pick up speed).

The maximum stress that a material can withstand for an infinitely large number of fatigue cycles. See also fatigue strength.

Covers for closing up hatchways.

Is the temperature existing at the discharge port of the compressor.

To free something from the binding action of ice by warming it to a temperature above the melting point of ice. Also, a warm spell when ice and snow melt.

After a seam is caulked, to lay over it a narrow piece of canvas and then pour on hot pitch and tar .

A measure of the number of cycles or wavelengths of electrical energy per second; U.S. electricity supply has a standard frequency of 60 hertz.

An index that combines sensible temperature and air humidity to arrive at a number that closely responds to the effective temperature; used to relate temperature and humidity to levels of comfort.

To make life onboard for the crew as uncomfortable as possible, by keeping them at work at all hours, often unnecessarily.

Barometer in which pressure is determined by balancing air pressure against the weight of a column of mercury in an evacuated glass tube.

Cargo moving under Customs control where duty has not yet been paid.

Project Initiatin Management System.

The minimum temperature shown by a minimum thermometer exposed in an open situation with its bulb at the level of the tops of the grass blades of short turf.

An instrument for measuring the difference between incoming and outgoing terrestrial radiation.

(FSCS) The Financial Services Compensation Scheme is the sole financial compensatory scheme. It was set up.