Of a system (or part thereof) is its condition at an instant of time as described or measured by its properties.

Small, cake-shaped pieces of ice floating down rivers.

An enemy vessel captured at sea by a privateer or a ship of war. The term is also applied to contraband cargo taken from a merchant ship.

Is the saturation pressure at the critical temperature. It is the highest vapor pressure that the liquid can exert.

Prepare for going to sea, extra lashing on all movable objects.

A standard numerical code used by the U.S. Government to classify products and services.

The manner in which a shipment moves; i.e., the carriers handling it and the points at which the carriers interchange.

A machine which aspirates gas which has already been compressed and delivers the same at higher pressure.

A breakwater used as a landing pier.

Two lines spliced together to form an eye.

The measurement of the angle between the bottom of a boat and its widest beam. A vessel with a 0

The pressure measured in a flowing stream (liquid or gas) in such a manner that no effect on the measurement is produced by the velocity of the stream.

The swell of a ship's hull around the propeller shaft.

On square rigged ships, lines or cables attached to the ends of each yard; these are used to pivot (brace) the yards around the mast at different angles to the fore-and-aft line of the ship to make the most of the wind..

Lie at anchor

A small boat designed to be rowed by use of its oars. Some dinghies are rowboats.

A filter assembly in which the inlet, outlet and filter element axes are in a straight line.

An adiabatic compression with no increase in entropy; a reversible-adiabatic compression.

The total pressure measured from absolute zero ( i.e., from an absolute vacuum).

Machine which receives dry bulk cargo. It is used for stowing sugar,ores and minerals in the holds.