Privilege to use the rate producing the lowest charge.

Quantity of gas actually compressed and delivered to the discharge system at rated speed of the machine and under rated pressure conditions.

Underwriters Lab.

Any fixed object that a navigator may use to find his position, such as permanent land or sea markers, buoys, radiobeacons, and lighthouses, and to indicate safe and unsafe waters.

A colorless, odorless, tasteless gas. A mixture of individual gases. The gaseous mixture surrounding the earth. Standard density of dry air free of carbon dioxide (0

A mast that is stepped (placed) on the deck of a boat rather than through the boat and keel stepped. The mast of a deck stepped boat is usually easier to raise and lower and are usually intended for lighter conditions than keel stepped boats.

Nautical name for an argumentative person.

Practice of loading iron ore cargoes into every alternate hold, leaving the remaining holds empty.

The act of striking or collision of a moving vessel against a stationary object.

A sea on the quarter (coming from a side of the stern).

A representative of a government commission or agency vested with power to administer oaths, examine witnesses, take testimony, and conduct hearings of cases submitted to, or initiated by, that agency. Also called Hearing Examiner.

Metal bolts with an eye in the end.

Sailing on a run with the wind coming over the stern from the same side as the boom (danger of jibing).

Sequence of letters and numbers, unique to each ship by which ships can be identified.

The error in a compass reading caused by the heel of a boat.

Resting on the surface of the water.

Describes the pressure drop through a component and is the difference in pressure between two points.

(1) As a command, it means to go in the direction indicated, e.g., "Lay foward" (go up) or "Lay alow!" (come down). (2) Of a line or rope, it refers to the direction in which the strands are twisted. (3) Lay the course: able to fetch a given point when cl ...

Holding oars at right angles to fore and aft line of boat with blades horizontal and parallel to surface of water.

A type of filter capacity test in which a clogging contaminant is added to the influent of a filter, under specified test conditions, to produce a given rise in pressure drop across the filter or until a specified reduction of flow is reached. Filter life ...