An arrangement in which two parties agree to exchange periodic interest payments, at agreed.

An instrument for measuring angles of inclination. Used in conjunction with a ceiling light to measure cloud height at night.

Central Processing Unit. The part of a computer which controls and directs all functions.

the attraction to, and retention of particles in, a filter medium by electrostatic forces, or by molecular attraction between the particles and the medium.

(1) To lean over to one side, due to wind pressure on the sails or crew on the side; The amount that a boat is tipped over side-to-side, relative to its normal horizontal position. (2) The after end of a ship's keel. (3) The lower end of a mast.

Cracking that occurs in the weld metal. See also cold cracking, hot cracking, lamellar tearing, and stress-relief cracking.

(GDR)A certificate which represents ownership of a given number of a company's shares and which can be.

Owner Identification Number

The ratio in percentage of the time that the equipment is in operation to the total working time.

Hollow vessel of iron, steel or wood, that is filled with water and sunk under a vessel. When water is pumped out, the buoyancy of the camel lifts the ship. Very valuable aid to salvage operations.

Finland (Flag)

Guaranteed Safe Berth

Fittings on the mast to which the forestay and shrouds attach.

Office of Naval Research

Vessel Identification System.

A term used for the transparent or translucent material in a window. This material (i.e. glass, plastic films, coated glass) is used for admitting solar energy and light through windows.

The carriage of goods or passengers for remuneration taken on at one point and discharged at another point within the territory of the same country. or Shipments between ports of a single nation, frequently reserved to national flag vessels of that nat ...

Motorcar Ferry.

As defined by the Energy Security Act (PL 96-294) of 1980, "any organic matter which is available on a renewable basis, including agricultural crops and agricultural wastes and residues, wood and wood wastes and residues, animal wastes, municipal wastes, ...

The commencement of regular payments from capital which has accumulated in an.