A generic term for a glazed opening that allows daylight to enter into a building and can be opened for ventilation.

A process involving conjoint corrosion and cavitation.

Large Amplitude Motions and Loads

A hand hold. Usually along the cabin top or ladder.

The destruction of adhesion between a coating and the surface coated.

FXX Radio transmission designator.Frequency modulation of main carrier other than F1B, F3E and frequency modulation facsimile.(ALRS)

Navy term meaning Officer of the deck.

A thin metal disc partially evacuated of air used to measure atmospheric pressure by measuring its expansion and contraction.

A metastable lamellar aggregate of ferrite and cementite resulting from the transformation of austenite at temperatures above the bainite range.

The transparent or opaque sphere in an electric light that the electric light transmits through.

Latin America Shipowners' Association

Outer Continental Shelf

The original name for the left side of the vessel when facing forward. The name was changed to Port to avoid any confusion with starboard, the right side of the vessel when facing forward.

An organisation established in 1989 to improve the image of Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs).

(AMT)A tax which targets high wealth individuals to pay a minimum amount of tax. The tax is calculated.

An electricity supplier rate structure in which the per unit price of electricity decreases as the amount of energy increases. Normally only available to very large consumers.

Any quantity, such as force velocity, or acceleration, which has both magnitude and direction at each point in space, as opposed to scalar which has magnitude only. Such a quantity may be represented geometrically by an arrow of length proportional to its ...

Pure Car Truck Carrier

The mean wind speed over a specified period of time.

To disconnect a transmission and/or distribution line; a power line that is not carrying a current; to open a circuit.