Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel.Large tanker, often without propulsion of her own, staying in a fixed position to process and store oil awaiting to be loaded on another vessel. In July 1999 the largest one was the 'Girassol built by Hyun ...

Sling of various types used for lifting vehicles on to and off general cargo ship.s

Is used in psychrometry and is the temperature recorded by a thermometer whose bulb has been covered with a wetted wick and whirled on a sling psychrometer. Taken with the dry bulb, it permits determination of relative humidity of the atmosphere.

A fix taken by visually observing the location of known landmarks.

Circular iron band used to hold a bowsprit on the stem of a sailing vessel.

A contact anemometer connected to an electrical circuit which is so arranged that the average wind speed is indicated.

A tube designed to measure the rate of flow of fluids. It consists of a tube having a constriction or throat at its midsection. The difference between the pressure measured at the inlet and at the throat is a function of the fluid velocity. Compare to Pit ...

A temperature telemeter.

An abbreviation of forecastle.

An instrument which measures the effective terrestrial radiation. See Angstrom pyrgeometer.

A navigational aid with a light that flashes about once per second.

See radar theodolite, radio direction-finder.

Air brought into a building from outside to replace exhaust air.

A salt or ester of carbonic acid.

European Sea Ports Organisation

Gross Observed Volume

The molecule, ion, or group bound to the central atom in a chelate or a coordination compound.

The maximum cyclic stress value that a metal can with stand for a specified number of cycles or length of time in a given corrosive environment. See corrosion fatigue strength

NEXt Generation RADar. A NWS network of about 140 Doppler radars operating nationwide.

Aging under conditions of time and temperature greater than those required to obtain maximum change in a certain property, so that the property is altered in the direction of the initial value.,/dd>