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All the various sails carried on board a yacht.

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An automatic pressure relieving device actuated by the static pressure upstream of the device, which opens in proportion to the increase in pressure over the opening pressure.

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A company which is owed money by trade debtors faces the risk of slow payment or default on those.

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A wood or fiber cover placed around such containers as cans and bottles.

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Is a single shaft, positive displacement rotary compressor.

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BHP

Brake Horse Power.

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Wind with a speed between 28 and 55 knots (32 and 63 mph); Beaufort scale numbers 7 through 10.

Category:Meteorology

An object designed to increase the radio reflectivity of a boat so that it is more visible on radar. Many small boats are made with fiberglass and other materials that do not reflect radar very well on their own.

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A Type of Standard Voyage Charter Party Issued by ASBA

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Abbreviation for precipitation-evaporation quotient.

Category:Meteorology

Actual Time Used To Count

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A thin sheet of semiconductor (photovoltaic material) made by cutting it from a single crystal or ingot.

Category:Energy Terms

is the ratio of the actual velocity at a given point to the velocity of sound in the same gas at the conditions existing at this point. These are known as local conditions.

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Usually the forward berth of the boat, located in the bow

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P2

Measuring point for compressor acceptance test. Pressure at the compressor outlet flange.

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The value of stress intensity at which crack propagation becomes rapid in sections thinner than those in which plane-strain conditions prevail.

An inert gaseous element.

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The highest energy band in a semiconductor that can be filled with electrons.

Category:Energy Terms