American Society for Engineering Education.

Energy storage using electrochemical batteries. The three main applications for battery energy storage systems include spinning reserve at generating stations, load leveling at substations, and peak shaving on the customer side of the meter.

Association Internationale de Signalisation Maritime (see also IALA).

Auxiliary Management Information System.

Free of Capture and SeizureInsurance term. Used until 1982 in all marine insurance contracts to refer to the war exclusion clause. Discontinued in the UK cargo insurance market in 1982 and in the hull insurance market in 1983 (BIMCO).

Visual Display Unit

To lay the head yards abox in a square rigged sailing vessel was to lay them square to the foremast in order to heave-to.

Fuel Adjustment Factor

The amount of energy (in electron volts) required to free an outer shell electron from its orbit about the nucleus to a free state, and thus promote it from the valence to the conduction level.

Bonaire Petroleum Corporation N.V.

Hertz

Association of Shipbrokers and Agents (U.S.A.) Inc.

A machinery device, which is applied for clipping and receiving/rending the electric cables during cable-laying under water.

Anemometer which generates an electrical contact output with a frequency proportional to wind speed.

A unit of length named for A.J. Angstome, a Swedish spectoscopist, used in measuring electromagnetic radiation equal to 0.000,000,01 centimeters.

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Business Planning and Analysis Group.

Independent Tank, Wing

A recording pressure-tube anemometer in which the wind scale of the float manometer has been made linear by the use of springs, i.e. Dines anemometer.

An air operated device for hoisting or pulling. Similar to a slusher or tugger or An engine for handling drafts of cargo secured on deck and fitted with drums on a horizontal axle.