An aid to taking as astronomical sight with a sextant when the sea horizon is obscured through haze, fog, or darkness.

A published rate that is never assessed because no freight moves under it.

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 ...

An instrument for measuring the frost point of the atmosphere.

A multihulled boat with three hulls.

A window located high in a wall near the eaves that allows daylight into a building interior, and may be used for ventilation and solar heat gain.

An energy system in which the fuel production equipment is in close proximity, or connected to, the fuel using equipment.

In the US, a plan which enables investors to accumulate shares in stock or a mutual fund by.

A shortening of the term, "Roll On/Roll Off." A method of ocean cargo service using a vessel with ramps which allows wheeled vehicles to be loaded and discharged without cranes.

An instrument for measuring radiant energy. It consists of an ether differential thermometer with blackened bulbs. One of the bulbs is exposed to the unknown radiation and the other to a black body source whose temperature can be varied. Equality of radia ...

A line drawn through geographical points having the same pluvial index.

The riding lights required to be carried by vessels at anchor.

Malaysian International Shipping Corporation

Special Periodical Survey of Machinery

(Bridging loan)See 'gilt-edged stock'.

The curved part of a ship's hull where the side and the flat bottom meet.

The volume of liquid water evaporated per unit area in unit time. usually measured as the depth of liquid water lost per unit time from the whole area.

In a system of moist air, the dimensionless ratio of the mass of water vapor to the mass of dry air. For many purposes, the mixing ratio may be approximated by the specific humidity.

The raising of capital by a borrower from his existing mortgage lender.

(1)An isothermal reversible reaction in which a liquid solution is converted into two or more intimately mixed solids on cooling, the number of solids formed being the same as the number of components in the system. (2) An alloy having the composition ind ...