Centistokes centi Stokes (1 cSt = 1 mm2/s)

Abbreviation for the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers.

Same as atmospheric pressure.

A term used on the London Stock Exchange to describe a share purchase or sale. The term does not.

The record of a barograph.

Are any material with an affinity for moisture. These analyzers use sensing elements that contain moisture adsorbing material. A change in the moisture content of the element is detected by an electric network and is used as a measurement of dew point

Used for lashing down sails, awnings, etc., a series of round turns where the end is passed over the standing part and under the bight and pulled taut on each turn.

Refers to marine matters such as an Admiralty Court.

Nautical Institute Headquarters, London

Operating Differential Subsidy Agreement

A measure of the electrical charge of a capacitor consisting of two plates separated by an insulating material.

Motor Whaler.

A steam boiler on a ship deck used to supply steam to deck machinery when the main boilers are shut down.

Estimated Time of ReadinessTime at which the ship will be ready to load, for instance when the crew has to clean the holds first.

The portion of the strearnflow during any month or year derived from precipitation in previous months or years.

The stage, on a fixed river gauge, corresponding to the top of the lowest banks within the reach for which the gauge is used as an index. Compare to flood stage.

A term used by the London Stock Exchange to denote that certain conditions were agreed between the.

A method of streamflow routing which assumes that storage is a linear function of the weighted flow in the reach and is adaptable to a simple mathematical solution.

A computed characteristic of a particular river basin, expressed as the time difference between the time-center of mass of rainfall and the time-center of mass of resulting runoff.

Pieces of soft wood, covered with canvass, placed on the trestle-trees, for the eyes of the rigging to rest upon.