Alongside of. Side by side. Side by side ; by the side of.

Value Added Tax

1.Marine Evacuation System.2.Mobile Earth Station

An ideal heat engine (conceived by Sadi Carnot) in which the sequence of operations forming the working cycle consists of isothermal expansion, adiabatic expansion, isothermal compression, and adiabatic compression back to its initial state.

A unit of pressure used principally in oceanography. One decibar (10' dynes/cm2) equals 0.1 bar. In the ocean, hydrostatic pressure in decibars very nearly equals the corresponding depth in meters.

The inverse of electrochemical impedance.

Pure Car Carrier

European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service

A power plant that is normally operated to generate a base load, and that usually operates at a constant load; examples include coal fired and nuclear fueled power plants.

Fresh Water Draft On Arrival

The waters adjacent to a country over which it claims jurisdiction. also, Territorial Waters.

Latitude

Netherlands Antilles (flag)

Condition Assessment Survey

The power output of a power plant that can be continuously produced.

Annual Inert Gas System Survey.

Hydrostatic Balanced Loading. Method of loading large oil tankers which allows to extends the lives of tankers from 25 to 30 years with regard to MARPOL phase-out provision.

American Institute of Marine Underwriters.

U.S. Customs' master computer system, "Automated Commercial Systems."

The first stress in a material, usually less than the maximum attainable stress, at which an increase in strain occurs without an increase in stress. Only certain metals - those that exhibit a localized, heterogeneous type of transition from elastic defor ...