No Liner On Tailshaft

Non-Condensing

This is when a load is sent in more than one consignment. In a letter of credit, the buyer can say whether this is allowed or not allowed.

A material that retards the movement of water vapor through a building element (walls, ceilings) and prevents insulation and structural wood from becoming damp and metals from corroding. Often applied to insulation batts or separately in the form of treat ...

A tariff term referring to ocean rate less accessorial charges, or simply the base tariff rate.

Military Assistance Program.

A company which is in severe trouble, but still with some hope of recovery, may be put into the. – As used in international conventions, the government of the state whose flag the ship is flying.

A change in dimensions directly proportional to and in phase with an increase or decrease in applied force.

The potential difference at the junction of two dissimilar substances.

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 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.

Operation mode of a communication circuit in which each end can transmit and receive, but not simultaneously.

Korean Register of Shipping (classification society)

A clock-driven device for recording the time of occurrence of an event or the time interval between the occurrence of events.

Maritime Safety Committee

Scavenging

The presence of contaminants in the air in concentrations that prevent the normal dispersive ability of the air, and that interfere with biological processes and human economics.

A category of electric power producer established under the Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act (PURPA) of 1978, that includes small-power producers (SPP) who use renewable sources of energy such as biomass, geothermal, hydroelectricity, solar (thermal a ...

A hard, dense type of coal, that is hard to break, clean to handle, difficult to ignite, and that burns with an intense flame and with the virtual absence of smoke because it contains a high percentage of fixed carbon and a low percentage of volatile matt ...

The grilled opening into a room by which the amount of warm air from a furnace can be directed or controlled; may include a damper.