A material with high absorbtance and low emittance properties applied to or on solar absorber surfaces.

Light lines from the topping lift to the boom, forming a cradle into which the mainsail may be lowered.

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

Convention on the Carriage of Noxious and Hazardous Substances by Sea

Gears

A situation in which waves strike a boat from the side, causing it to roll unpleasantly.

A portion of the discharge gas is redirected through a heat exchanger and then expanded back to suction pressure, where it is mixed with normal suction gas stream and commonly used to compensate for process flow demands.

Scantling draft is the maximum draft at which the ship can withstand all the loads safely. In other words, it is the draft at which the strength of the ship is built. It may or may not be equal the tropical draft (Maximum to a ship can load as per load li ...

A safety device consisting of a short length of relatively fine wire, mounted in a holder or contained in a cartridge and connected as part of an electrical circuit. If the circuit source current exceeds a predetermined value, the fuse wire melts (i.e. th ...

Deck

To install the sails on the boom or the forestay.

Required by some countries for protection against the dumping of certain types of merchandise or products.

The component of the radiosonde which includes the modulating blocking oscillator and the radiofrequency carrier oscillator.

The maximum positive and negative deviation observed in testing a device under specified conditions and by a specified procedure. It is usually measured as an inaccuracy and expressed as accuracy, typically in terms of the measured variable, percent of sp ...

Instrument for measuring the depth of water from precipitation that is assumed to be distributed over a horizontal, impervious surface and not subject to evaporation.

The curve (sag) of a rope, cable or chain hung between two points such as the anchor rode or towing line; the deeper the curve, the more catenary.

The officer on board responsible for the navigation of the ship.

A movement of equipment from an origin rail ramp to a destination rail ramp only.

Are those constituents in the suction gas that cannot be condensed to a liquid with the cooling medium available.

See ceilometer.