(1) Water having salinity values ranging from approximately 0.5 to l7 parts per thousand. (2) Water having less salt than seawater, but undrinkable.

Zinc oxide: the powdery product of corrosion of zinc or zinc-coated surfaces.

A place not suitable for anchoring.

Office of Naval Research

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

Underwriters Lab.

A triangular topsail set above the mainsail in a gaff-rigged vessel.

Military Assistance Program.

An electrolytic cell, the electromotive force of which is due to a difference in air (oxygen) concentration at one electrode as compared with that at another electrode of the same material; an oxygen concentration cell (a cell resulting from a potential d ...

Hopper Barge

A combination of banking and insurance business. A high street bank, for example, might sell both.

The condition of being electrically separated from other metallic structures or the environment.

A component of a electrochemical battery. A 'primary' cell consists of two dissimilar elements, known as 'electrodes,' immersed in a liquid or paste known as the 'electrolyte.' A direct current of 1-1.5 volts will be produced by this cell. A 'secondary' c ...

The total gas pressure (static plus velocity).

Guaranteed Safe Berth

Energy required to operate mechanical components of an energy system, or a source of energy or energy supply system to back-up another.

The ratings under which specified appliances convert energy sources into useful energy, as determined by procedures established by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Satellite Navigation

The law of the sea; jurisdiction over maritime causes.

Embrittlement under creep conditions of, for example, aluminum alloys and steels that results in abnormally low rupture ductility. In aluminum alloys, iron in amounts above the solubility limit is known to cause such embrittlement; in steels, the phenomen ...