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Working Party on Electricity (IACS)

The area between opposing shipping lanes, restricted to most navigation except for crossing with caution

A measurement of atmospheric conditions aloft, above the effective range of a surface weather observation. Elements evaluated include temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed, and wind direction.

A mooring buoy or spar. A group of piles driven close together and bound with wire cables into a single structure.

National Transportation Safety Board (U.S.)

Department of Transportation.

International Maritime Convention on Communication by Satellite

A characteristic applied to domestic water heaters that is the amount of gallons raised 100 degrees Fahrenheit per hour (or minute) under a specified thermal efficiency.

Describing a small or confined space. Originated from the time when a cat-o'-nine-tails was used to inflict punishment.

Space booked by shipper or charterer on a vessel but not used

A knot used to tie two lines together.

A measure of the percent of moisture actually in the air compared with what would be in it if it were fully saturated at that temperature. When the air is fully saturated, its relative humidity is 100 percent.

The difference between downward and upward (total) radiation; net flux of all radiation.

A device for measuring power consumption.

Cyclical stocks are those companies who earnings tend to ebb and flow with the fortunes of the.

A U.S. Customs program wherein at least two designated Customs ports will enter cargo that arrives at either port without the necessity of an in-bound document.

See transgranular cracking.

The temperature of a body referred to the absolute zero, at which point the volume of an ideal gas theoretically becomes zero. (Fahrenheit scale is minus 459.67

The angle at which a solar collector or module is set to face the sun relative to a horizontal position. The tilt angle can be set or adjusted to maximize seasonal or annual energy collection.