A compound that causes oxidation, thereby itself being reduced.

The arrangement, proportion, and design of windows in a building.

(1) In good condition. (2) To adjust to proper shape or size.

A formal notification to the writer of an option from a clearing house that an option has been.

Upwarddirected solar radiation, reflected by the earth's surface and the atmosphere.

Melaks and Dumai Service

Recapitulation of the terms and conditions agreed

A weight attached to a line used to determine depth by lowering it into the water.

Classification character for a ship which had been built under the Society/s survey but has been subjected to survey for classification of the Society/s surveyors.

Six feet. Comes from the Dutch word "fadom" which was the distance between fingertips of outstretched hands.A unit of measurement relating to the depth of water or to the length of line or cable; one fathom is 6 feet or 1.83 meters

To bagpipe the mizzen, is to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the weather mizzen rigging.

A turbine that is driven by high velocity jets of water or steam from a nozzle directed to vanes or buckets attached to a wheel. (A pelton wheel is an impulse hydroturbine).

European Sea Ports Organisation

A wooden enclosure about sixteen feet square and eight feet high with a precipitation gauge at its center. The function of the fence is to minimize eddies around the gauge and thus insure a catch that is representative of the actual rainfall or snowfall.

A conductor or system of conductors for radiating and/or receiving radio energy. Also called aerial.

Short Range Certificate (radio)

A thermometer which uses a transducing element whose element proper-ties are a function of its thermal state. Common meteorological examples of such thermometers are the resistance thermometer and the thermoelectric thermometer.

See cathodic protection.

Ventilation that is created by the differences in the distribution of air pressures around a building. Air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure with gravity and wind pressure affecting the airflow. The placement and control of doors ...

A generic term for an electrical conductor.