National Shipbuilding Initiative.

Offshore Supply Vessel

Outboard

Safety Equipment Certificate

Costs that are repetitive and occur when an organization produces similar goods or services on a continuing basis.

The air compressor continues to run, usually at full RPM, but no air is delivered because the inlet is either closed off or modified, not allowing inlet air to be trapped.

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.

Heavy Metal Scraps

Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards (API)

As time increases from zero at the terminals of an inductor, the voltage comes to a particular value on the sine function curve ahead of the current. The voltage reaches its negative peak exactly 90 degrees before the current reaches its negative peak thu ...

Is the dynamic viscosity divided by the density

Coasting Service in Argentina.

Excrement Tanker.

A device used to remove particulate matter from the waste gasses of a combustion power plant.

Electrical energy lost due to inherent inefficiencies in an electrical transmission and distribution system under specific conditions.

Also known as the square knot, it is formed by two half hitches in which the ends always fall in line with the outer parts. This knot is used to loosely tie lines around the bundles of sail that are not in use after reefing.

The occurrence of embrittlement in a material below the melting point of the embrittling species. See also liquid-metal embrittlement.

Port Inboard

Strategic Petroleum Reserve

The succession of stages through which water passes on the ground and in the atmosphere: evaporation from land or bodies of water, condensation to form clouds, precipitation, accumulation in the soil or in bodies of water, and re-evaporation.