A space heating device that burns pellets; are more efficient, clean burning, and easier to operate relative to conventional cord wood burning appliances.

A set of regulations set down by the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board to govern the operational control of aircraft on instrument flight. The abbreviation of this term is seldom used to denote the rules themselves, but is in popular use to describe the weathe ...

Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. Small buoyant transmitter which should always remain afloat if the ship sinks, and send automatically a distress message via satellites.

Dining room facilities and kitchen for crew separate from the passenger dining room and kitchen.

A bulkhead that will not let water pass from one side of it to the other.

A construction element that inhibits termites from entering building foundations and walls.

A special type of radar target, usually a comer reflector, tied beneath a free balloon and designed to be an efficient reflector of radio energy.

Inter-Island Sevice in Solomon.

The test or specimen electrode in an electrochemical cell.

The distance that an observer can see vertically into a surface-based obscuring phenomenon such as fog, rain, or snow. The distance estimate must be based upon ceiling balloon ascensions or ceiling light projector measurements.

Tanker, Liquefied Gases.

See exfoliation corrosion.

Bulk Carrier or Motorcar Carrier

A law of chemistry and physics: the rate of diffusion of one substance in another is proportional to the negative gradient of the concentration of the first substance.

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>

Slang for getting married. A splice joins two lines together permanently.

A pin placed through the head of a rudder to prevent it from being lost.

A disparaging term used to describe executives who earn high salaries and bonuses.

Sixteenth-century term for a sea distance at which high land could be observed from a ship. Varied between 14 and 22 miles according to average atmospheric conditions in a given area.

Time and date for payment of a draft.