Voyage Data Recorder

A psychrometer in which the ventilation is provided by a suction fan.

A type of compression where no heat is transferred to or from the gas during the compression process.

Also known as a preferred channel buoy. A red and green horizontally striped buoy used in the United States to mark the separation of a channel into two channels. The preferred channel is indicated by the color of the uppermost stripe. Red on top indicate ...

A place not suitable for anchoring.

The least noble potential where pitting or crevice corrosion, or both, will initiate and propagate.

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The total number of shares a company is authorised to issue by reference to its memorandum and.

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

Charge assessed by a pier or dock owner against freight handled over the pier or dock or against a steamship company using the pier or dock.

An inert gas. A colorless, monatomic element which is found to occur in dry air to the extent of only 0.000524 percent by volume. Helium is very light, having a molecular weight of only 4.003 and specific gravity referred to air of 0.138. Because helium i ...

A type of disk hardness-gauge, especially useful in relatively soft snow. See disk hardness gauge.

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

Fine dust or salt particles dispersed through a portion of the atmosphere; a type of lithometer. The particles are so small they cannot be felt or seen with the naked eye. Many haze formations are caused by the presence of an abundance of condensation nuc ...

A device for converting one form of energy or fuel into useful energy or work.

Heavy roll to leeward with a beam wind.

A thermometer whose sensitive element has been made to resemble a black body by covering it with lamp black. The thermometer is placed in an evacuated transparent chamber which is maintained at a constant temperature. The instrument responds to insolation ...

A quantity of (solid) biomass fuel equal to 2,400 pounds bone dry.

The part of the boat behind the beam.