The audio-frequency signal transmitted by the Diamond-Hinman radiosonde when the baroswitch pen passes each fifteenth contact of the commutator, up to a number determined by the design of the commutator, and each fifth contact thereafter. This signal is t ...

A system of physical units based upon the use of the meter, the metric ton (106 grams), and the second as elementary quantities of length, mass, and time, respectively.

Liquefied Natural Gas

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Shipper Owned Container

Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull

Restricted Service between Brunei and Labuan.

Hygrometer in which the dew (frost) point is determined by observing the temperature of an artificially cooled surface at the moment at which dew (frost) first appears on it.

Cylindrical Fire-Tube Boiler Survey

Greece (Flag)

Defects, such as dangling bonds, induced in an amorphous silicon semiconductor upon initial exposure to light.

The straight or curved line of the deck line; curvature of the lines of a vessel toward the bow and stern.

Disciplinary code in which maritime crimes and punishments are specified.

The process of desiccants being regenerated by water being driven off the desiccant. Hot air or gas passes through the desiccant bed, heating it. As a result, the partial pressure of the water vapor becomes higher than that in the regenerating air. Water ...

A solution or process used to loosen or remove corrosion products such as scale or tarnish.

An aviation weather forecast for a specific flight.

An instrument which measures the instantaneous rate at which rain is falling on a given surface. Also called a rate-of-rainfall gauge.

A mooring buoy or spar. A group of piles driven close together and bound with wire cables into a single structure.

(1) A second method of propelling a vessel. On a sailboat this would be the engine. (2) Machinery fitted in steam and motor vessels which is not part of the main propelling machinery. (3) a support group, e.g., Coast Guard Auxiliary

A scaling factor, usually denoted by the symbol K, used in linear-elastic fracture mechanics to describe the intensification of applied stress at the tip of a crack of known size and shape. At the onset of rapid crack propagation in any structure containi ...