To remove or disassemble gear after it is used.

The natural, convective movement of air or water due to differences in temperature. In solar passive design a thermosyphon collector can be constructed and attached to a house to deliver heat to the home by the continuous pattern of the convective loop (o ...

That horizontal wind velocity at which the Coriolis acceleration exactly balances the horizontal pressure force. It is directed along contour lines or isobars.

To leave a ship without authority (deserting).

National Marine Fisheries Service

Passenger Vessel Operator.

In the US, this is a certificate of deposit with a denomination of $100,000 and above. They are.

When all the sails are shaking.

When one listed company bids for another company (listed or private), and offers to pay in three.

A raw material that can be converted to one or more products.

This is a factor expressing deviation of a gas from perfect gas laws.

A cup anemometer with its shaft mechanically coupled to a magneto.

Threshold stress intensity for stress-corrosion cracking. The critical stress intensity at the onset of stress-corrosion cracking under specified conditions.

The face-centered cubic form of pure iron, stable from 910 to l400

A common type of liquid-inglass thermometer, used, in meteorology, in psychrometers and as a maximum thermometer.

Sea water used for ballast, let into the double bottom, or into a water-ballast tank, or trimming tanks.

Defect in the action of an aneroid barometer resulting in a sluggish adjustment of the index toward the correct reading when the barometer is subjected to a large and rapid change in pressure.

The course of a vessel after magnetic variation has been considered, but without compensation for magnetic deviation.

A conically shaped, copper rain gauge shield.

A single turn of rope when a rope is coiled down.