Compartment in the stern of a vessel used for storage; a storage space below the deck in the cockpit.

The act of decoying a ship ashore by means of false lights.

Electronic Chart System

An air pollution control device used to filter particulates from waste combustion gases; a chamber containing a bag filter.

(Delivered At Frontier) (...Named Place):A Term of Sale which means the sellers fulfill their obligation to deliver when the goods have been made available, cleared for export, at the named point and placed at the frontier, but before the customs Terms of ...

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

A machine having a vertically mounted warping end on which a rope may be wound under power, but not stored.

See hydrologic accounting.

Tropical Fresh

A colorless, odorless noncombustible gas with the formula CO2 that is present in the atmosphere. It is formed by the combustion of carbon and carbon compounds (such as fossil fuels and biomass), by respiration, which is a slow combustion in animals and pl ...

Marine Environmental Protection.

In the futures market the price of a contract for future delivery of a commodity usually trades.

A fund in which the objective is to outperform the market average by actively seeking out stocks.

Inter-governmental organisation

The ratio of light output of a fluorescent lamp operated on a ballast to the light output of a lamp operated on a standard or reference ballast.

Intergranular corrosion, usually of stainless steels or certain nickel-base alloys, that occurs as the result of sensitization in the heat-affected zone during the welding operation.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

The non-combustible residue of a combusted substance composed primarily of alkali and metal oxides.

South American Common Market.

A unit of heat originally defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of water through one degree centigrade (the gram-calorie or small calorie), but this proved to be insufficiently precise. The 15