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

Hardening caused by the precipitation of a constituent from a supersaturated solid solution. See also age hardening and aging.

The opposition that a device or material offers to the flow of direct current, equal to the voltage drop across the element divided by the current through the element. Also called electrical resistance.

An obsolete term describing oil or grease coatings used to provide temporary protection against atmospheric corrosion.

A scaling factor, usually denoted by the symbol K, used in linear-elastic fracture mechanics to describe the intensification of applied stress at the tip of a crack of known size and shape. At the onset of rapid crack propagation in any structure containi ...

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Coal Carrier.

A small low rail around the deck of a boat. The toe rail may have holes in it to attach lines or blocks and to allow drainage. A larger wall is known as a gunwale.

To install the sails on the boom or the forestay.

The amount of air that a filter can handle. Expressed in CFM.

Traditionally a ship's bell is made of brass and has her name engraved on it. It is used for striking the bells which mark the passage of time (see Bells) and is also used as a fog signal as an audible warning of a ship's position.

A system of physical units based upon the use of the meter, the metric ton (106 grams), and the second as elementary quantities of length, mass, and time, respectively.

Scottish Vocational Qualification

Liquefied Natural Gas

Piston

Dutch regulations do not permit their companies to issue ADRs linked to active home-country shares,.

Pacific Maritime Association.

An inspection method for welding, forgings etc. based on the ability of certain types of liquids to enter voids and crevices by capillary action and to remain there when the surface liquid is removed.

Also known as "power towers," these use fields of two-axis tracking mirrors known as heliostats. Each heliostat is individually positioned by a computer control system to reflect the sun's rays to a tower-mounted thermal receiver. The effect of many helio ...

Restricted Service between Brunei and Labuan.