An electromagnetic ballast that disconnects a lamp's electrode heating circuit once is has started; often called "low frequency electronic" ballasts.

The part of the boat behind the beam.

Those parts of the ship's navigating bridge extending towards the ship's sides.

To push a sail out so that the wind fills the opposite side, thus slowing the boat down.

That time during which weather that prevents working shall not count as laytime

System

The cardinal points of the compass, i.e. north, south, east, west.

International Hydrographic Organization

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.

Closed, curved, flexible tube of elliptic cross section which is deformed, according to type, by variations of atmosphere spheric pressure or temperature and so provides a measurement of the particular parameter.

A type of radiant heating system where the radiator is located along an exterior wall where the wall meets the floor.

The quantity measured by a sound level meter in which the frequency response is weighted according to the A-weighting curve (see IEC publication 651).

Said of a rope when it is under such tension that it is practically rigid.

An instrument for determining the dust content of a sample of air. Also spelled conimeter.

The total pressure measured from absolute zero ( i.e., from an absolute vacuum).

The value of a shipment agreed upon in order to secure a specific freight rate.

A delta-neutral spread composed of more long options than short options on the same underlying.

Auxiliary/Generators Kilowatts (total)

Primitive plants, usually aquatic, capable of synthesizing their own food by photosynthesis.