Boards fixed vertically to a boat to prevent leeway

An air pollution control device that removes organic contaminants by oxidizing them into carbon dioxide and water through a chemical reaction using a catalysis, which is a substance that increases (or decreases) the rate of a chemical reaction without bei ...

A component on a compressed air line designed to increase in magnitude the flow by releasing small amounts of compressed air at high velocity through an internal, ring shaped nozzle. This column of air released through the front creates a vacuum behind, t ...

Yes. "Aye aye sir" is a reply on board ship on receipt of an order.

Away from the direction of the wind. Opposite of windward.

A ladder of rope with rungs, used over the side.

A direct-vision nephoscope which is constructed in the following manner: a comb consisting of a crosspiece containing equispaced vertical rods is attached to one end of a column eight to ten feet long and is supported on a mounting that is free to rotate ...

World Electronic Navigation Database

An adsorption type desiccant.

The usually unfinished space above a ceiling and below a roof.

European Federation of Inland Ports

International Labour Organization

An elastomeric bellow with specially designed metal end closures used in place of pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders. A device which induces action or motion with compressed air being the medium through which the power is transmitted.

The amount of electromotive force, measured in volts, that exists between two points.

If a company's earnings figures are distorted either positively or negatively by exceptional one-off.

A unit of measure for an electrical current; the amount of current that flows in a circuit at an electromotive force of one Volt and at a resistance of one Ohm. Abbreviated as amp.

Down or downwards; as in "Lay alow!"; opposite of Aloft.

International Hydrographic Organization

A thermometer using transducing elements which deform with temperature. Examples are the bimetallic thermometer and the Bourdon tube type of thennometer.

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