Resistance to air flow; usually stated in inches H2O or PSI.

To back an anchor, is to carry out a smaller one ahead of the one by which the vessel rides, to take off some of the strain. To back a sail, is throw it aback. To back and fill, is alternately to back and fill the sails.

Measuring point for compressor acceptance test. Amount of condensate collected in the aftercooler.

Sacrificial anodes placed on a vessel to prevent electrolysis of vital metal parts.

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Loaded aboard a vessel.

International Association of Institutes of Navigation

Blocks on which the keel of a vessel rests when being built, or when she is in dry dock.

Abbreviation for "Dangerous and Hazardous" cargo.

Anything of Government Issue.

Eskimo word for a light, covered-in canoe type boat.

Time charter

Corrosion in which nickel is selectively leached from nickel-containing alloys. Most commonly observed in copper-nickel alloys after extended service in fresh water. See also dealloying, and selective Ieaching.

That which is loaded into a ship. The act of loading.

Used to indicated times measured in Coordinated Universal Time, a successor to Greenwich Mean Time. A time standard that is not affected by time zones or seasons.

Quality Improvement Team.

Ultra High Pressure

A cabinet bid, which is a facility enabling holders of deep out-of-the-money options to close their.

A vertical structural element that holds up a roof, encloses part or all of a room, or stands by itself to hold back soil.

The angle between the zenith and a heavenly body.