Time period from when a compressor loads until it unloads.

A mechanism used by electric utilities to determine prices for electricity; typically defines rates according to amounts of power demanded/consumed during specific time periods.

Strop inserted between two hawsers, and weaker than the hawsers, so that strop, and not hawsers, will part with any excessive strain.

The Price/Earnings ratio of a company at the time when it is taken over by another.

An accumulation of deposits. This term includes accumulation and growth of marine organisms on a submerged metal surface and also includes the accumulation of deposits (usually inorganic) on heat exchanger tubing.

Combination passenger/cargo vessel; a vessel specifically designed to carry both containers and conventional cargoes.

Navy term meaning to change the arrangement of the colors (the national flag) upon getting under way or coming to moorings.

A stay leading from one mast, such as the main mast to another, such as the mizzen mast.

(See PRS)

One who designs ships.

A device for converting the flow of a fluid (air, steam, water, or hot gases) into mechanical motion.

Localized corrosion of a metal surface, confined to a point or small area, that takes the form of cavities or pits.

(1) That section of pipeline extending from the ocean floor up the platform. Also, the vertical tube in a steam generator convection bank that circulates water and steam upward. (2) A reservoir of molten metal connected to a casting to provide additional ...

Is the dynamic viscosity divided by the density

The maximum rate at which precipitation can pass through the surface into the soil, for a given soil in a given condition.

Iron or wood pin fitted into racks, around which lines can be belayed or secured.

Any object that a navigator may use to find his position, such as permanent land or sea markers, buoys, radiobeacons, and lighthouses.

A container fitted with a solid removable roof, or with a tarpaulin roof so the container can be loaded or unloaded from the top.

A mutual fund which invests in securities in countries around the world such as Europe, Asia and the.

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).