Term for a seaman's short leave from his ship, permitting him to go ashore for the day or night.

A class of instruments employed to determine the electric potential at a point in the atmosphere, and ultimately the atmospheric electric field.

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In the direction from which the wind is blowing.

Corrosion resulting from an electrochemical cell caused by a thermal gradient.

A subtle, diumal component of the wind velocity leading to a diumal shift of the wind or turning of the wind with the sun, produced bv the east-to-west progression of daytime surface heating.

Resting on the surface of the water.

Coating containing zinc powder pigment andan organic resin.

The weight of an element or group of elements oxidized or reduced at 100~ efficiency by the passage of a unit quantity of electricity. Usually expressed as grams per coulomb.

(ADL)An insurance term which refers to the basic things that people need to be able to do in order look.

The pressure exerted by the atmosphere as a consequence of gravitational attraction exerted upon the "column" of air lying directly above the point in question.

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To remove water from the boat by hand, bucket, pump etc.

The line where the water comes to on the hull of a boat. Design waterline is where the waterline was designed to be, load waterline is the waterline when the boat is loaded, and the painted waterline is where the waterline was painted. Actual waterline is ...

The selective leaching or corrosion of a specific constituent (Al, Ni, Mo, Ni) from an alloy.

The final payment on a loan which is significantly larger than those preceding.

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

A wood-pulping process in which sodium sulfate is used in the caustic soda pulp-digestion liquor. Also called kraft pulping or sulfate pulping.

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.