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Cylindrical Water-Tube Boiler Survey.

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Drag Suction Hopper Dredger.

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The transaction or interchange that occurs at the time a container is received by a rail terminal or water port from another carrier.

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Federal Communications Commission Rules governing radio equipment and operation in the United States.

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The value of assets that can be converted into cash immediately, as reported by a company. Usually.

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Water of sufficient depth to allow a boat to travel through it.

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Industry-related: A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.

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lb

Pounds.

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The process of implementing measures to reduce peak power demands on a system.

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Any material that has a limited capacity for conducting an electric current. Certain semiconductors, including silicon, gallium arsenide, copper indium diselenide, and cadmium telluride, are uniquely suited to the photovoltaic conversion process.

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The highest operating pressure the system or component is designed to withstand.

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A large, swelling wave. To surge a rope or cable, is to slack it up suddenly where it renders round a pin, or round the windlass or capstan.urge ho! The notice given when a cable is to be surged.

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The command given to inform the crew that the helm is being turned quickly to leeward, turning the boat windward

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The vertical absorption of a liquid into a porous material by capillary forces.

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A location that is not sheltered from the wind and seas. An open location would not make a good anchorage.

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CFS

Container

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A compressor belonging to the group of displacement reciprocating compressors.

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A beam which supports a deck.

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A term previously given to the shares of smaller companies traded far less frequently on the London.

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Sailing upwind so close to the wind that the forward edge of the sail is stalling or luffing, reducing the power generated by the sail and the angle of heel. Also known as pinching.

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