This device can automatically turn the heater off at night and on in the morning.

Category:Energy Terms

Coating metal with a very thin layer of molten solder or brazing filler metal.

In reference to a wind energy conversion device's blades, the difference between the rotational speed of the tip of the blade and the actual velocity of the wind.

Category:Energy Terms

bucket rain gauge-A rain gauge where the precipitation collected by the receiver empties into one side of a chamber which is partioned transversely at its center and is balanced bistably upon a horizontal axis. When a predetermined amount of water has bee ...

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TIR

Transport International par la Route. Road transport operating agreement among European governments and the United States for the international movement of cargo by road. Display of the TIR carnet allows sealed containerloads to cross national frontiers w ...

Category:Sea Words

TKS

Thanks

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TL

Turkish Lloyd's (Class Society)

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TL

Abbreviation for "Trailer Load."

Category:Sea Words

Tanker, Liquefied Flammable Gases.

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TLG

Tanker, Liquefied Gases.

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TLP

Tension Leg Platform

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TLX

Telex

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TNK

Tank

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TO

Tender Offer

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Transfer Of Class Agreement (IACS)

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A small low rail around the deck of a boat. The toe rail may have holes in it to attach lines or blocks and to allow drainage. A larger wall is known as a gunwale.

Category:Sea Words

Abbreviation for "Trailer on Flat Car." The movement of a highway trailer on a railroad flatcar. Also known as Piggyback.

Category:Sea Words

Work done by a man who bustles about doing nothing. Usually amplified by adding "running twice round the scuttle butt and once round the longboat".

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Tomorrow

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Ton

A measure of weight ashore and a measure of capacity on a vessel.

Category:Sea Words