Gilded carving and scroll work decorating the hulls of ships.

A wind (or component thereof) directed down the slope of an incline and caused by greater air density near the slope than at the same levels some distance horizontally from the slope. Also called drainage wind and sometimes called katabatic wind.

Fire-Tube Boiler Survey

Same as fogbow.

Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards (API)

Transverse

A ship designed to carry all types of general cargo, or "dry cargo."

A measure of distance approximately 3 nautical miles. One-twentieth of a degree of latitude.

Thermal spraying in which coating material is fed into an oxyfuel gas flame, where it is melted. Compressed gas may or may not be used to atomize the coating material and propel it onto the substrate.

Safety Equipment Certificate

A horizontal axis wind turbine in which the rotor is downwind of the tower.

A chemical compound produced in a reaction between ethanol and isobutylene (a petroleum-derived by-product of the refining process). ETBE has characteristics superior to other ethers: low volatility, low water solubility, high octane value, and a large re ...

A measure of weight ashore and a measure of capacity on a vessel.

Remove a boat from the water.

Applies to vessels, not to cargo, (0.2+0.02 log10V) where V is the volume in cubic meters of all enclosed spaces on the vessel.

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

A gap unintentionally left uncovered while painting or varnishing.

Deforming metal plastically at sucha temperature and strain rate that recrystallization takes place simultaneously with the deformation, thus avoiding any strain hardening.Contrast with c old ii orking.

A slang term for an open-top trailer or container with a tarpaulin cover.

A collective investment scheme which relies on currency trading for its.