A bun-shaped cover placed over a radar scanner to prevent risk of fouling and to protect it from the weather.

Energy available from the movement of the wind across a landscape caused by the heating of the atmosphere, earth, and oceans by the sun.

See: 'tax.

An experimental technique for evaluating susceptibility to stress-corrosion cracking. It involves pulling the specimen to failure in uniaxial tension at a controlled slow strain rate while the specimen is in the test environment and examining the specimen ...

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Defense Energy Support Center

A ceremony performed on board ships when passengers or crew are crossing the equator for the first time during a voyage.

The difference between downward and upward (total) radiation; net flux of all radiation.

Heat exchangers for raising the temperature of compressed air to increase its volume.

SMES technology uses the superconducting characteristics of low-temperature materials to produce intense magnetic fields to store energy. SMES has been proposed as a storage option to support large-scale use of photovoltaics and wind as a means to smooth ...

Having to do with boats, ships, or sailing.

is an ejector used to compress waste or exhaust steam or any other gas through a moderate range of compression above atmospheric pressure.

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A point of sail where the boat is sailing at a right angle to the wind (wind coming from abeam). A beam reach is usually the fastest point of sail. A beam reach is a point of sail between a broad reach and a close reach.

Is the temperature existing at the discharge port of the compressor.

Surrounded by land.

A complete listing of all cargo entering the country of discharge. Required at all world ports and is the primary source of cargo control, against which duty is assessed by the receiving country.

Health and Safety at Work Act

A schedule of all ports to be visited on a ship's cruise, with dates of arrival and departure and the local agents' names and addresses

A comparison of a carrier's operating expense with its net sales. The most general measure of operating efficiency.