The straight or curved line of the deck line; curvature of the lines of a vessel toward the bow and stern.

The process of checking the accuracy of and adjusting the ship's magnetic compass.

Cargo ship of 14.800 tonnes deadweight.

Dioctylphalate aerosol (Efficiency Test Material).

The audio-frequency signal transmitted by the Diamond-Hinman radiosonde when the baroswitch pen passes each fifteenth contact of the commutator, up to a number determined by the design of the commutator, and each fifth contact thereafter. This signal is t ...

Fathoms

A receptacle, open to atmosphere, that is used to used to collect condensate. For example, two or three drain pipes from various filters may be discharging into a funnel. In this case the funnel is a tundish.

An instrument which measures the instantaneous rate at which rain is falling on a given surface. Also called a rate-of-rainfall gauge.

Restricted Service in Amami Kasari Bay.

A kind of navigational buoy

Marks of identification.

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

Shipper Owned Container

Hygrometer in which the dew (frost) point is determined by observing the temperature of an artificially cooled surface at the moment at which dew (frost) first appears on it.

An architectural feature used to shade exterior walls; usually made of a lattice of metal or wood; often covered by vines to provide additional summertime shading.

Compound

Fellow of The Nautical Institute

Is the ratio in absolute units of the actual gas temperature to the critical temperature.

Transistor-Transistor Logic.

The maximum or minimum value at the normal stress at a point in a plane considered with respect to all possible orientations of the considered plane. On such principal planes the shear stress is zero. There are three principal stresses on three mutually p ...