Laid-Up

Port State Control

At or towards the stern or rear of a ship.

The rate of charge transfer per unit area when an electrode reaches dynamic equilibrium (at its reversible potential) in a solution; that is, the rate of anodic charge transfer (oxidation) balances the rate of cathodic charge transfer (reduction).

Lacking an affinity for, repelling, orfailing to absorb or adsorb water. Contrast with hydrophilic.

Coating metal with a very thin layer of molten solder or brazing filler metal.

A measure of the intrinsic luminous intensity emitted by a source in a given direction. Luminance is a measure only of light. The comparable term for electromagnetic radiation in general is radiance.

(Free On Board) (...Named Port of Shipment):An International Term of Sale that means the seller fulfills his or her obligation to deliver when the goods have passed over the ship's rail at the named port of shipment. This means that the buyer has to bear ...

Are load carrying machine elements permitting some degree of motion in which the lubricant is air or some other gas.

A control line that adjusts tension along the foot of the sail, pulling the clew away from the tack; used to maintain proper sail shape.

Direction-Finder

Foreign Military Financing

Special Periodical Survey of Machinery

An energy saving device in a heat pump that, during the cooling cycle, recycles some of the waste heat from the house to heat domestic water.

The reversible potential for an electrode process when all products and reactions are at unit activity on a scale in which the potential for the standard hydrogen half-cell is zero.

Rate of flow of water past a point in a stream, expressed as volume per unit time, i.e. cubic feet per second.

Is a unit of work equal to 33,000 foot pounds per minute, 550 foot pounds per second, or 746 Watts.

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

Destruction of metals or other materials by the abrasive action of moving fluids, usually accelerated by the presence of solid particles or matter in suspension. When corrosion occurs simultaneously, the term erosion-corrosion is often used.

A plot of the redox potential of a corroding system versus the pH of the system, compiled using thermodynamic data and the Nernst equation. The diagram shows regions within which the metal itself or some of its compounds are stable.