A winch used for hoisting and lowering cargo.

Embrittlement under creep conditions of, for example, aluminum alloys and steels that results in abnormally low rupture ductility. In aluminum alloys, iron in amounts above the solubility limit is known to cause such embrittlement; in steels, the phenomen ...

General Agreement on Trade in Services

The captain of the ship.

A unit of luminous intensity of a light source.

A document, issued by a bank to its customers, listing details of debit and credit transactions over.

All (not just 98%) particles larger than the stated micron size have been removed from the fluid being filtered.

The unit of speed in the nautical system; one nautical mile per hour. It is equal to 1.1508 statute miles per hour or 0.5144 meters per second.

Any number of solar photovoltaic modules or solar thermal collectors or reflectors connected together to provide electrical or thermal energy.

An electrode widely used as a reference electrode of known potential in electrometric measurement of acidity and alkalinity, corrosion studies, voltammetry, and measurement of the potentials of other electrodes. See also electrode potential, reference ele ...

Vessel Traffic System

A term applied to a floating object that is moored or anchored so that it remains at one place. Budys are used for marking the places on the water where a ship is sunk, where reefs are below, where the edges of the channel are, or to provide means for moo ...

A method of growing large size, high quality semiconductor crystal by slowly lifting a seed crystal from a molten bath of the material under careful cooling conditions.

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

Allows equipment and supplies arriving at one port to be loaded on a vessel, aircraft, etc., for its exclusive use and to be exported from the same port.

A type of ceiling and roof assembly that has no attic.

The size of a flaw (defect) in a structure that will cause failure at a particular stress level.

United States Environmental Protection Agency.

A cover which fits over a large inflated balloon to facilitate handling in high or gusty winds.

A temperature scale on which the freezing point of water equals 32