Russian Register of Shipping.

High Speed Escort Ship.

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

Short period oscillation in level of enclosed, or partly enclosed, area of water when not due to the action of tide-raising forces.

Any emission of light at temperatures below that required for incandescence.

Cylindrical Fire-Tube Boiler Survey

Also known as "power towers," these use fields of two-axis tracking mirrors known as heliostats. Each heliostat is individually positioned by a computer control system to reflect the sun's rays to a tower-mounted thermal receiver. The effect of many helio ...

A pension scheme in which an employee's pension is based on number of years of service and final.

Fathoms

The closeness of agreement among a number of consecutive output values measuring the same input value under the same operating conditions, approaching from the same direction. Usually measured as nonrepeatability but expressed as repeatability, a percenta ...

Wind with a speed between 41 and 47 knots (47 and 54 mph); Beaufort scale number 9.

The power which is theoretically required to compress a gas under constant temperature, in a compressor free from losses, from a given inlet pressure to a given discharge pressure.

A federal government agency involved in rural development, marketing and regulatory programs, food safety, research, education and economics, food, nutrition and consumer service, farm and foreign agricultural services, and natural resources and environme ...

To reeve and secure a line.

Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull

Fracture through or across the crystals or grains of a metal. Also called transcrystalline fracture or intracrystalline fracture. Contrast with intergranular fracture.

A device, which is linked with the towboat, and under emergency conditions, tows away any ship from site. The device consists of reel 、towing hawser、signal cable、 buoy、 wire storage box、signal lamp etc.

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.

A loss ofstrength and ductility of .steel by high-temperature reaction of absorhcd hydrogen with carbides in the steel resulting in dec arbwri:.alien and internal fissuring.

Having an amenity for oil. See also hydrophilic and hydrophobic.