In charge of twelve to four watch. Ships navigation officer. Keeps charts (maps) up to date and monitors navigation equipment on bridge.

An instrument which automatically determines the size distribution of raindrops.

The Price/Earnings ratio of a company at the time when it is taken over by another.

A generic term for measures of resistance to extension of a crack. The term is sometimes restricted to results of fracture mechanics tests, which are directly applicable in fracture control. However, the term commonly includes results from simple tests of ...

International convention on Maritime Liens and Mortages 1993.

Any object that a navigator may use to find his position, such as permanent land or sea markers, buoys, radiobeacons, and lighthouses.

A municipal bond whose interest and principal payments are supported by the full faith and credit of.

Based upon damage patterns, classifies twisters into six categories of wind speed (F0 thru F5), ranging from 40 to 318 mph estimated wind speed.

As time increases from zero at the terminals of an inductor, the voltage comes to a particular value on the sine function curve ahead of the current. The voltage reaches its negative peak exactly 90 degrees before the current reaches its negative peak thu ...

(1) The alternate rise and fall of the bow of a vessel proceeding through waves; also called hobby horsing (2) The theoretical distance advanced by a propeller in one revolution. (3) Tar and resin used for caulking between the planks of a wooden vessel.

Energy conversion technologies that harness the energy in tides, waves, and thermal gradients in the oceans.

Land

The time allotted to a man to stand at the helm.

Pacific Ocean Region (INMARSAT)

A system by which an object such as a compass is suspended so that it remains horizontal as the boat heels.

China (Flag)

(See PRS)

An instrument which automatically records the voltage applied to it, as a function of time.

(FDDI)Trading floor network connecting all trading floor terminals for the.

A group of coating or welding processes in which finely divided metallic or nonmetallic materials are deposited in a molten or semimolten condition to form a coating. The coating material may be in the form of powder, ceramic rod, wire, or molten material ...