Period of time a system or appliance (or component of) is expected to function at its nominal or design capacity without major repair.

Release of contained gas in the vaccum of outer space. eg. rapid destructive expansion of plastics and similar materials.

Indian Register Quality Systems

A gangway or gangplank. Used to cross from one ship to another, or from a ship to a pier.

A vessel is in soundings when she is in sufficiently shallow water for soundings to be made and used as an aid in the vessel's navigation.

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

The value of the quantity measured, as indicated or otherwise provided by a measuring instrument.

A negatively charged ion.

Vessel moves to a new area for a new season.

A pair of additional backstays temporarily rigged to provide extra support to the masts of square rigged vessels when sailing downwind.

Partly Protected Water Service in Philippines.

A furnace grate that moves fuel through the combustion chamber

The current distribution in an electrolytic cell that is free of polarization.

The transducer of any hygrometer, i.e. that part of a hygrometer that quantitatively "senses" atmospheric water vapor.

Old name for bunting from which signal and other flags were made.

(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 ...

Shipped under rate that includes cost from end of ship's tackle at load port to end of ship's tackle at discharge port.

Same as atmometer.

Said of a vessel when the depth of water can be measured by the lead (within the 100 fathom curve).

A record maintained by a trading specialist of buy and sell orders for a given.