A method of docking with a boat's stern to the dock.

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.

The risk that the buyer or seller will not complete the contract in accordance with their contractual obligations.

Little or no wind and flat seas

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

The range of operating conditions within which a device is designed to operate and for which operating influences are stated. See operating conditions, reference operating conditions.

A machine designed to drop and hoist the anchor. It has one or more cable lifters mounted on a horizontal shaft, each being fitted with a brake. The cable lifters are capable of being declutched from the prime mover. One or two warping ends may also be fi ...

Same as radiation pattern. Anticyclone-An area of high atmospheric pressure which has a closed circulation that is anticyclonic (clockwise in northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in southern hemisphere).

The process of transmitting electricity over one or more separately owned electric transmission and distribution systems. (See Wholesale and Retail Wheeling.)

The point or outdoor temperature where the heating capacity of a heat pump matches the heating requirements of a building.

Turbines in which the rotor speed increases and decreases with changing wind speed, producing electricity with a variable frequency.

A network of checks or cracks appearing on the surface.

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To charge less than the proper amount.

Smooth Water Services.

An absolute pyhrliometer, developed by C.G. Abbott, in which the radiation-sensing element is a blackened water-calorimeter.

Numerous, very fine cracks in a coating or at the surface of a metal part. Checks may appear during processing or during service and are most often associated with thermal treatment or thermal cycling. Also called check marks. checking, or heat checks.

The tendency of the strands of a line to fray out at the ends.

The selective attack of one or more components of a solid solution alloy; eg. dezincification, dealumination etc. See dealloying.

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