A pulpit located on the stern.

Ratings of financial reliability given by Best's Rating Service to insurance companies with a top.

The short foot rope at the end of a yard at the outer corner of a square sail used when reefing or furling.

Abbreviation for "Trailer on Flat Car." The movement of a highway trailer on a railroad flatcar. Also known as Piggyback.

An aneroid barograph designed to record atmospheric pressure variations of very small magnitude.

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Report

Russian Register of Shipping.

River Service in Brunei, Sabah and Sarawak

A nickname referring to British seamen. All British ships were to carry a supply of lime juice for issue to the crew as a preventative against scurvy.

An electromagnetic device that changes the voltage of alternating current electricity. It consists of an induction coil having a primary and secondary winding and a closed iron core.

An architectural feature used to shade exterior walls; usually made of a lattice of metal or wood; often covered by vines to provide additional summertime shading.

The opposition that a device or material offers to the flow of direct current, equal to the voltage drop across the element divided by the current through the element. Also called electrical resistance.

A term used for lighting appliances; the ratio of lumens received on a flat surface to the light output, in lumens, from a lamp; used to evaluate the effectiveness of luminaries in delivering light.

A machine that compresses gases. Divided into two groups; process gas compressors and oil and gas field compressors.

A coating process whereby the cleaned and masked component to be coated is heated and rotated on a spindle above the streaming vapor generated by melting and evaporating a coating material source bar with a focused electron beam in an evacuated chamber.

See corrosion potential and open-circuit potential.

In a system of moist air, the dimensionless ratio of the mass of water vapor to the total mass of the system.

An instrument which measures the rate of evapotranspiration. It consists of a vegetation soil tank so designed that all water added to the tank and all water left after evapotranspiration can be measured.

(1) The application of an electrically conductive metallic layer to the surface of nonconductors. (2) The application of metallic coatings by nonelectrolytic procedures such us spraying of molten metal and deposition from the vapor phase.