Light lines from the topping lift to the boom, forming a cradle into which the mainsail may be lowered.

Indicates the jib or staysail being boomed out on the opposite side of the mainsail in a following wind, giving a large amount of sail area presented to the wind. see Wing and Wing

An arrangement whereby a steamship company, under rules and regulations established in the freight tariff of a given trade, accepts small packages at rates below the minimum bill of lading, and issues a parcel receipt instead of a bill of lading.

An economy whose growth is believed to be neither too 'hot' (i.e. too fast) or too 'cold' (too slow).

Rinave Portuguesa (Portuguese class society).

Local Trade limit Service.

The supportive structure of a building.

Restricted Greater Coasting Service.

The pressure equivalent of the velocity of a fluid.

a type of separator for removal of larger particles from an exhaust gas stream. Gas laden with particulates enters the cyclone and is directed to flow in a spiral causing the entrained particulates to fall out and collect at the bottom. The gas exits near ...

National Technical Information Service.

A document required and issued by some national governments authorizing the importation of goods.

The process of converting materials that are no longer useful as designed or intended into a new product.

Frequency Shift Keying. A form of frequency modulation of a data signal performed by a modem for transmission over dedicated wire or phone lines.

One mole is the mass numerically equal (in grams) to the relative molecular mass of a substance. It is the amount of substance of a system that contains as many elementary units (6.023 exp23) as there are atoms of carbon in 0.012 kg of the pure nuclide C1 ...

Stresses that remain within a body as a result of plastic deformation.

The region of an anodic polarization curve, noble to and; above the passive potential range, in which there is a significant increase in current density (increased metal dissolution) as the potential becomes more positive (noble).

See ceilometer.

A railing around the deck of a boat to keep things from going overboard and the seas from coming aboard; the strake of shell plating above a weather or shelter deck; the part of a ship's side that extends above the main deck to protect it against heavy we ...

Glosary corrosion