Kilo or metric ton. 1,000 Kilos or 2,204.6 pounds.

To bring a sailing vessel head to the wind or as close to it as possible in high seas, maintaining a slight forward motion.

In general, pertaining to or affording an overall view. In meteorology, this term has become somewhat specialized in referring to the use of meteorological data obtained simultaneously over a wide area for the purpose of obtaining a comprehensive and near ...

Institute of Marine Engineers

An architectural design (also known as the double envelope house), sometimes called a "house-within-a-house," that employs a double envelope with a continuous airspace of at least 6 to 12 inches on the north wall, south wall, roof, and floor, achieved by ...

Less than Container Load

Hyundai Merchant Marine Korean shippig company

A device that converts heat or sunlight directly to electricity, invented by Standford Ovshinsky, that has a unique glass composition that changes from an electrically non-conducting state to a semiconducting state.

Module Carrier.

A group of organic compounds composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; a series of molecules composed of a hydrocarbon plus a hydroxyl group; includes methanol, ethanol, isopropyl alcohol and others.

A means to increase the thermal efficiency of a steam electric generating system by converting some waste heat from the condenser into electricity. The heat engine in a bottoming cycle would be a condensing turbine similar in principle to a steam turbine ...

The ability of a fluid that is insoluble in water to separate from water with which it may be mixed in the form of an emulsion.

International Institute of Marine Surveyors

Nautical Institute. Organization founded in 1971 located in London which promotes high professional standards among deck officers.

An indentation of the coastline between two headlands.

The production of an electric current in a conductor by the variation of a magnetic field in its vicinity.

An opening such as a hole or vent. An opening through which air can pass, or a restricted opening placed in a pipe line to provide a means of controlling or measuring flow.

Any sudden and heavy rain, almost always of the shower type.

A device for measuring sea-surface waves. It consists of a weighted pole below which a disk is suspended at a depth sufficiently deep for the wave motion associated with deepwater waves to be negligible. The pole will then remain nearly as if anchored to ...

Coal tar or asphalt-based coating.