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Long wave formations during calm or light air formed by waves running into shoaling water

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A form requiring all data in a commercial invoice along with a certificate of value and/or a certificate of origin. Required in a few countries (usually former British territories) and usually serves as a seller's commercial invoice.

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Is the saturation pressure at the critical temperature.

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Is the total gas pressure (static plus velocity) at the discharge port of the compressor. Velocity pressure is considered only with dynamic compressors.

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Loose and broken ice in bays, or along exposed edges of floes.

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Single tariff item, established to move multiple commodities needed for a specified project, usually construction.

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A charge for delaying a steamer beyond a stipulated period.

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To stow or secure in a safe place. A top-mast is housed by lowering it and securing it to a lowermast.

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

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Bread that was supplied to ships before bakeries were introduced on board.

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The difference between the discharge pressure and the intake pressure.

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A very high wind. Also called "Snotter"

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A bolted rim used for attachment to another object.

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

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An arc of a circle in which certain types of navigational lights known as sector lights are visible.

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Observing with the eye. Applied to a document, means examining and signing as evidence of satisfaction as to its authenticity.

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A valve to control the flow of air in a certain direction.

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Side stays from the masthead to the rail..

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A sail placed forward of the mast, such as a jib; the sail set from the foremast on a schooner; the lowest square sail on the foremast of Square Riggers.

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Energy which a substance possesses because of the motion and configuration of its atoms, molecules, and subatomic particles.

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