Working Paper

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

International Bunker Industry Association Ltd

International Code of Signals

A raised area, often dome shaped, resulting from (1) loss of adhesion between a coating or deposit and the base metal or (2) delamination under the pressure of expanding gas trapped in a metal in a near-subsurface zone. Very small blisters may be called p ...

A system of estimating and reporting wind speed, originally based on the effect of various wind speeds on the amount of canvas that a full-rigged nineteenth century frigate could carry.

Dcomputer assisted design

An up slope wind due to local surface heating. Opposite of katabatic wind.

A type of heating fuel derived by refining crude oil that has a boiling range at atmospheric pressure from 400 degrees to 550 degrees F.

Line 12 inches or 300 mm long, painted amidships on both sides and parallel to the load lines.

Very Large Crude Carrier (between 160,000 - 320,000 DWT)

The frequency of a carrier wave.

A wall usually about 3 to 4 feet high located that is placed in the attic of a home, anchored with plates between the attic floor joists and the roof joist. Sheathing can be attached to these walls to enclose an attic space.

Water-Tube Boiler Survey

United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Can occur any time warm, moist air blows over a surface cool enough to drop it's temperature below the dew point.

United Nations Convention on the Law Of the Sea

Women's International Shipping and Trading Association

The pressure unit of the meter-ton-second system of physical units. equal to 10 millibars or 101 dynes per cm2.

(1) A reduction of the anodic reaction rate of an electrode involved in corrosion. (2) The process in metal corrosion by which metals become passive. (3) The changing of a chemically active surface of' a metal to a much less reactive state. Contrast with ...