The amount of heat given off by a person at rest in a comfortable environment; approximately 50 Btu per hour (Btu/h).

A cell produces electric energy by the galvanic oxidation of carbon; commonly used in household appliances.

Petroleum Association of Japan

Self Discharging

Original Equipment Manufacturer. An original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, manufactures products or components that are purchased by another company and retailed under that purchasing company's brand name.[OEM refers to the company that originally ma ...

(see HSE)

Negligence or fraud on the part of the Master or crew resulting in a loss to the owners.

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 ...

Macroscopic progression marks on a fatigue fracture or stress-corrosion cracking surface that indicate successive positions of the advancing crack front. The classic appearance is of irregular elliptical or semielliptical rings, radiating outward from one ...

Department of Trade and Industry (UK)

A term for stowing cargo in a container.

ACRONYM - A unit of electrical current or rate of flow of electrons through a conductor. One volt across one ohm of resistance causes a current flow of one ampere. One ampere is equal to 6.25 x 1018 electrons per second passing a set point in a circuit. A ...

Forty-Foot Equivalent Unit (Container)

A generator producing alternating current by the rotation of its rotor, and which is powered by a primary mover.

The heat liberated by the combustion of a unit quantity of a fuel under specific conditions; measured in calories.

A heat treatment, whether accidental, intentional, or incidental (as during welding), that causes precipitation of constituents at grain boundaries, often causing the alloy to become susceptible to intergranular corrosion or intergranular stress-corrosion ...

A hole through casing, bulkhead, floor or deck to enable one to reach work or gear.

National Ocean Service (Part of NOAA)

Integrated bridge control system

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.