Capital Construction Fund: A tax benefit for operators of U.S.-built, U.S.-flag ships in the U.S. foreign, Great Lakes, or noncontiguous domestic trades, by which taxes may be deferred on income deposited in a fund to be used for the replacement of vessel ...

The gingerbread woodwork on the stern of old sailing ships.

The mass of a unit volume of a gas at a stated temperature and pressure.

The amount of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of a given mass of a substance by one degree Celsius. The heat required to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celsius is 4186 Joules.

A chemical substance or mixture that prevents or reduces the rate of the cathodic or reduction reaction by physical, physico-chemical or chemical action.

Planning Board for Ocean Shipping.

Owner Identification Number

Nautical name for an argumentative person.

A cylindrical navigation buoy painted green and having an odd number used in the United States as a navigational aid. At night they may have a green light.

The conversion of biomass into a gas, by biogasification (see above) or thermal gasification, in which hydrogen is produced from high-temperature gasifying and low-temperature pyrolysis of biomass.

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A mooring winch with the additional ability to haul or render a mooring rope within selectable limits without direct human intervention.

Atmosphere normale de reference. The term ANR is not usually applied to cfm, it is the new European replacement for FAD and usually follows the metric measurement of air flow, such as Cu Meters per Minute

An ideal substance that absorbs all radiation falling on it, and reflecting nothing.

Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor. A method of making silicon chips that results in low power consumption by the circuits.

(AER)A figure quoted in loan advertisements to help people make compare one product with another. It.

Electronic Data Interchange.

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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 ...

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