Strips of material used to separate multiple panes of glass within the windows.

The feminine form.

The total pressure measured from absolute zero ( i.e., from an absolute vacuum).

Is the piping between the compressor and the aftercooler, the aftercooler separator and the air receiver.

Stowing cargo destined for a specific location close together to avoid unnecessary cargo movement.

This type of insurance offers the shipper the broadest coverage available, covering against all losses that may occur in transit.

Systeme International. The international system of unit measurement.

See: 'waiver of.

(1) A navigator shoots the sun by using a sextant to measure its altitude. (2) A sailing vessel shoots when she forges ahead to windward with her sails luffing.

In reference to solar photovoltaic devices, a material that is composed of a single crystal or a few large crystals.

A concrete pad that sits on gravel or crushed rock, well-compacted soil either level with the ground or above the ground.

Effective June 18, 1984, describes the law covering water transportation in the U.S. foreign trade.

An order to execute a transaction in one security that depends on the price of another security..

Small horizontal spars extending athwartships from one or more places along the mast. The shrouds cross the end of these "spreaders", enabling the shrouds to better support the mast.

A vessel formed of two or more hulls. A catamaran has two hulls, and a trimaran has three hulls.

To take a boat into water that is too shallow for it to float in, i.e: the bottom of the boat is resting on the ground.

On a square-rigged ship, the short pieces of line which hang from the yards and support the footropes on which the topmen stand while working aloft on the sails.

Amount of water, expressed as a depth or as a mass, which would be obtained if all the water vapor in a specified column of the atmosphere were condensed and precipitated.

2,000 pounds.

The act of taking a ship on the high seas from those lawfully entitled to it.