Any point of sailing away from the wind.

The black line parallel with ship's keel marked on the inner surface of the bowl of a compass, indicating the compass direction of the ship's head.

The shear stress on a transverse cross section resulting from u twisting action.

A type of atmometer. It is a pan used in the measurement of the evaporation of water into the atmosphere. The NWS Class A pan is a cylindrical container 48 inches in diameter and 10 inches deep.

Morse Code Distress Signal (

The value of a business to a purchaser over and above its net asset value. It reflects the value.

Wind with a speed between 17 and 21 knots (19 and 24 mph); Beaufort scale number 5.

Rain gauge which registers precipitation that is too light to be registered by ordinary recording of the depth of water from precipitation. Same as ombrometer.

Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act

Miles Per Gallon

Partly Protected Water Service in Philippines.

The direction of an object (with reference to you, your ship, another object).

Is one that does not enter into known chemical combination, either with itself or another element. There are four known gases of this type: helium; neon; argon and krypton. or a gas that does not supply any of the needs of combustion.

Heating an alloy to a suitable temperature, holding at that temperature long enough to cause one or more constituents to enter into solid solution, and then cooling rapidly enough to hold these constituents in solution.

An adsorption type material used in compressed air dryers. Industry standards are activated alumina, silica gel and molecular sieves.(2) A material used to desiccate (dry) or dehumidify air.

An anemometer which measures wind speed by means of the properties of wind-borne sound waves. It operates on the principle that the propagation velocity of a sound wave in a moving medium is equal to the velocity of sound with respect to the medium plus t ...

The process by which water in plants is transferred as water vapor to the atmosphere. Also, the amount of water so transferred.

Committee on Measurement Accountability

The total radiation incident on a specific surface area over a time interval.

A c.g.s. (centimeter-gram-second) unit of mass. Originally defined as the mass of 1 cubic centimeter of water at 4