A term used in company accounts where income is due or a cost is incurred during an accounting.

Maintenance And Repair

A material that extracts one or more substances from a fluid (gas or liquid) medium on contact, and which changes physically and/or chemically in the process. The less volatile of the two working fluids in an absorption cooling device.

Eastern Dredging Association

Oil-Lubricated Stern Bearing, Continuous Liner on Tailshaft

F3C Radio transmission designator.Facsimile transmission using frequency modulation, with a single channel containing analogue information.(ALRS)

Center Aft

Booking Note

Within

All Going Well

Double Acting.

Alongside

A statement by a commodity broker to a client when a futures transaction is closed out. Sometimes.

J2B Radio transmission designator>br>Telegraphy (automatic reception of), single-sideband (suppressed carrier) with a single channel containing quantized or digital information with the use of a modulating sub-carrier. (ALRS)

Upper Explosive Limit

ACRONYM - National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors.

(1) The backbone of a vessel, running fore and aft along the center line of the bottom of the hull; the timber at the very bottom of the hull to which frames are attached. (2) A flat surface built into the bottom of the boat to prevent or reduce the leewa ...

A partially raised deck over the engine and boiler rooms, always around the smokestack, to let the hot air and fumes escape.

In general, any self-recording instrument carried aloft by any means to obtain meteorological data.

Forming a conversion coating on a metal surface by anodic oxidation; most frequently applied to aluminum.