Programmable Read-Only Memory. Read-only memory which can be programmed by the user using a special hardware programmer.

Pieces of plank bolted to the outer end of the bowsprit, to reeve the foretopmast stays through.

Anchor cable is caught around the fluke or an object is caught around the anchor .

A pole used as part of the sailboat rigging, such as masts, booms, gaffs, yards, etc. A vertical spar is a mast.

A large, flat bottomed boat used to carry the mud from a dredge.

The binding of an adsorbate to the surface of a solid by forces whose energy levels approximate those of condensation. Contrast with chemisorption.

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A masonry or metal stack that creates a draft to bring air to a fire and to carry the gaseous byproducts of combustion safely away.

Money paid by life insurance companies to policyholders based on endowment policies and.

The party that issues a Bill of Exchange. Usually, the Exporter in an international trade transaction.

A process resulting in adecrease of the toughness or ductility of a metal due to the presence of atomic hydrogen. Hydrogen embrittlement has been recognized classically as being of two types. The first known as internal hydrogen embrittlement, occurs when ...

Same as atmometer.

A line of equal or constant pressure.

A power-operated device with one or two drums to ensure that the working part of the fibre rope is reeled in no more than one layer. It may be used in conjunction with a rope storage reel.

Money paid by shipper to Master of ship for diligence in care of cargo. Not now paid to Master, but added to freight. Amount was usually about 1% of freight.

Price-sensitive information about a company that has not yet been made public.

Embrittlement of iron-chromium alloys (most notably austenitic stainless steels) caused by precipitation at grain boundaries of the hard, brittle intermetallic sigma phase during long periods of exposure to temperatures between approximately 560 and 980

The standard atmosphere is defined as the pressure exerted by a column of mercury 760 mm high with a density of 13,595 g/cm

A graduated scale placed in a position so that the stage of a stream may be read directly from it. Staff gauges may be placed on bridge piers or pilings, etc., or placed on specially constructed supports.

A unit of pressure which directly expresses the force exerted by the atmosphere. Equal to 1000 dynes/cm2 or 100 pascals.