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An optical, ultrasonic, or infrared sensor that turns room lights on when they detect a person's presence and off after the space is vacated.

A compartment in which fuel is stored; fuel consumed by the engines of a ship

East Coast

International Bulk Chemical CodeCode for the construction and equipment of ships carrying dangerous chemicals in bulk. (Often wrongly defined in BA publications and charts as International Bulk Carrier code)

The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit of water, at or near the temperature of maximum density, one degree Celsius (or Centigrade [C]); expressed as a "small calorie" (the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram ...

Worldscale

The period of time excluding the first and last days.

Financed,constructed and operated

Light Displacement Ton

The measure of the efficiency of fluorescent lamp ballasts. It is the relative light output divided by the power input.

When a perfect gas flows through a throttling with constant inlet and outlet pressures, the temperature of the gas is the same before and after it flows through the throttling. There is a temperature drop, however, during the passage of gas through the th ...

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.

Offshore Technology Conference

An octagonal shaped shelter that originated in Mongolia, and traditionally made from leather or canvas for easy transportation.

Bahamas Oil Refining Corp.

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.

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.

A sunshine recorder of the type in which the time scale is supplied by the motion of the sun. It consists of two opaque metal semi-cylinders mounted with their curved surfaces facing each other. Each of the semi-cylinders has a short narrow slit in its fl ...

A device used to control the voltage in a fluorescent lamp.