Subcommittee on Stability Loadlines and Fishing Vessel Safety (IMO)

The total luminous flux received on a unit area of a given real or imaginary surface, expressed in such units as the foot-candle, lux, or phot.

A wood or gas burning appliance that is primarily used to provide ambiance to a room. Conventional, masonry fireplaces without energy saving features, often take more heat from a space than they put into it.

A seal used to prevent the leakage of fluids, and also maintain the pressure in an enclosure.

A passive solar heating system in which the sun warms a heat storage element, and the heat is distributed to the interior space by convection, conduction, and radiation.

A pension plan in which benefits are dependent on contributions to and the growth of the pension.

The range of operating conditions of a device within which operating influences are negligible. The range is usually narrow. Reference operating conditions are the conditions under which reference performance is stated and the base from which the values o ...

Succession of long and unbroken waves that are not due to meteorological conditions in the vicinity. Generally due to wind or storms at a distance from the position.

Sailing other than close; hauled or into the wind (wind astern).

A numbering system using a base number of 16 and including the ten decimal digits (0 to 9) along with six alpha digits (A to F). Thus. a digit is available to represent each of the possible values of a 4-bit binary digit.

A pointed device which indicates the amount of resistance encountered when it is forced into a material such as snow or soil. See ram penetrometer.

Individual rooms or zones in a building where temperature is controlled separately from other rooms or zones.

A suspension of fine solid or liquid particles in a gas.

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When the sheer curves down towards the bow and stern.

In transit, or in passage.

In alternating current, the current goes from zero potential or voltage to a maximum in one direction, back to zero, and then to a maximum potential or voltage in the other direction. The number of complete cycles per second determines the current frequen ...

A fitting holding a boom or gaff to the mast.

An additional keel secured outside the main keel, usually as protection in the event of grounding.

See: 'day.