The dimensions of all parts which go into the construction of a ship's hull.

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

A heat engine of the reciprocating (piston) where the working gas and a heat source are independent. The working gas is compressed in one region of the engine and transferred to another region where it is expanded. The expanded gas is then returned to the ...

The stress condition in linear elastic fracture mechanics in which there is zero strain in a direction normal to both the axis of applied tensile stress and the direction of crack growth (that is, parallel to the crack front); most nearly achieved in load ...

The total area drained by a river and its tributaries. Same as watershed.

The measure of the rate of change of an option's price compared to the change of price in the.

A halyard used to raise the spinnaker.

The settings on a pressure switch used to either load or unload the air compressor on a constant speed application, or start or stop the compressor on a start/stop application. The cut out pressure is also known as the maximum pressure, or the point at wh ...

A form of psychrometer with wet-bulb and dry-bulb thermometers mounted on opposite sides of a specialty designed graph of the psychrometric tables. It is so arranged that the intersections of two curves determined by the wet-bulb and dry-bulb readings -yi ...

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

Port State Initiative (U.S. Coast Guard)

One horsepower provided over one hour; equal to 0.745 kilowatt-hour or 2,545 Btu.

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.

Department of Transportation.

An instrument used to measure changes in the level of the water in an evaporation pan. The gauge is normally placed in a Stillwell and adjusted so that the point of the hook just breaks the water surface. The change in water level is read on the attached ...

A water heater that uses electricity to move heat from one place to another instead of generating heat directly.

Safety Of Life At Sea (International Convention)

An order in writing by one party to another party to pay a specified sum to a third party or bearer.

A hydrometeor consisting of a visible aggregate of minute water droplets suspended in the atmosphere near the earth's surface. Fog differs from cloud only in that the base of fog is at the earth's surface while clouds are above the surface.

An Instrument used to determine dew point.