A semi great circle joining the north and south poles. Known as lines of longitude, they cross the equator and all parallels of latitude at right angles.

Order to pick up goods at a named place and deliver them to a pier. Usually issued by exporter to trucker but may apply to a railroad, which completes delivery by land. Use is limited to a few major U.S. ports. Also known as shipping delivery order.

Movement of cargo by water from one country through the port of another country, thence, using rail or truck, to an inland point in that country or to a third country. As example, a through movement of Asian cargo to Europe across North America.

The load created by moisture in the air, including from outside air infiltration and that from indoor sources such as occupants, plants, cooking, showering, etc.

A building element that shades windows, walls, and doors from direct solar radiation and protects these elements from precipitation.

Every company has an 'accounting reference date'. This is a date which it chooses itself, and.

Sails that are not properly arranged for the point of sail that the boat is on. The sails may be luffing or have improper sail shape, or the boat may be heeling too much. These conditions will slow the boat down.

Forecasting weather by the use of numerical models, run on high speed computers. Most of the NWP for the National Weather Service is done at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).

Instrument for measuring the depth of water from precipitation that is assumed to be distributed over a horizontal, impervious surface and not subject to evaporation.

See: 'endowment.

Wash trading, bucketing, cross trading, or other types of trade to give the appearance of trading.

Same as 0.4535924277 kilograms.

A plastic payment card which normally allows the holder higher spending limits over the standard.

A special machinery device, which is applied on the dredger ship for digging, loosing soil, mashing, and sucking mud/rock. underwater

An order to commence ship's work.

Melting and becoming a liquid by absorbing moisture.

The difference between the air temperature and the dew-point. Also called dew-point deficit, dew-point depression.

Bound together.

A material with high absorbtance and low emittance properties applied to or on solar absorber surfaces.

The maximum rope speed (in meters per second) that the winch can maintain with the rope wound on the drum in a single layer, and with negligible tension on the rope, normally not more than 10% of the drum load.