A wooden float placed between a vessel and a dock acting as a fender.

Hollow vessel of iron, steel or wood, that is filled with water and sunk under a vessel. When water is pumped out, the buoyancy of the camel lifts the ship. Very valuable aid to salvage operations.

A sunshine recorder of the type in which the time scale is supplied by the motion of the sun. It consists essentially of a spherical lens which bums an image of the sun upon a specialty prepared card.

Client Account Management System.

A cylindrical navigation buoy painted green and having an odd number used in the United States as a navigational aid. At night they may have a green light.

The velocity of the gas in the passages between the filter units in the filter house of a gas filter.

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

A manmade waterway used to connect bodies of water that do not connect naturally. Canals use locks to raise and lower boats when connecting bodies of water that have different water levels.

The voiding of a buy or sell.

Type of order given.

See: 'cancellation.

In financial services, the period after signing a contract during which customers are entitled to.

The lowest possible bid price of units in a unit trust under FSA regulations which is usually lower.

Last date, agreed in a charter party, by which vessel must be available to the charterer at the agreed place.

A unit of luminous intensity; the magnitude to the candela is such that the luminance of the total radiator, at the temperature of solidification of platinum, is 60 candelas per square centimeter.

A unit of luminous intensity of a light source.

The illuminating power of a standard candle employed as a unit for determining the illuminating quality of an illuminant.

Same as luminous intensity.

A pointed stern, such as those on a canoe.

(1) A term signifying an inclination of an object from a perpendicular; to turn anything so that it does not stand perpendicularly or square to an object. (2) Those timbers in a ship near the bow or stern which are sharply angled from the keel. (3) The op ...