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Cargo loaded into a container by the shipper under shipper's supervision. When the cargo is exported, it is unloaded at the foreign pier destination.

Category:Sea Words

A person who commits to guarantee the debts of another. For example if an individual fails to meet.

Category:Financial Terms

A type of journal bearing in centrifugal air compressors.

Category:Sea Words

On square-rigged ships, an additional sail set in good weather outside the square sails when the wind was abaft the beam.

Category:Sea Words

A buried item, such as junk steel or graphite rods, that serves as the anode for the cathodic protection of pipelines or other buried structures. See also deep groundbed.

A faintly-colored circular arc similar to a rainbow but formed on fog layers containing drops whose diameters are 100 microns or less. Also called mistbow, white rainbow.

Category:Meteorology

Heavy, linked chain secured to an anchor for mooring or anchoring.

Category:Sea Words

A solar photovoltaic product that generally consists of groups of PV cells electrically connected together to produce a specified power output under standard test conditions, mounted on a substrate, sealed with an encapsulant, and covered with a protectiv ...

Category:Energy Terms

Air pressure

Category:Sea Words

Corrosion that proceeds laterally from the sites of initiation along planes parallel to the surface, generally at grain boundaries, forming corrosion products that force metal away from the body of the material, giving rise to a layered appearance.

On older sailing ships, a heavy piece of curved timber projecting from the bow for the purpose of holding anchors in position for letting go or for securing them after weighing.

Category:Sea Words

The ratio of the isothermal power consumption to shaft input.

Category:Sea Words

To haul on a rope, to haul up tight, to hoist the last possible inch or so.

Category:Sea Words

An aggregate of iron or alloy carbides of essentially spherical shape dispersed throughout a matrix of ferrite.

An instrument for measuring the ultraviolet in solar and sky radiation.

Category:Meteorology

A line drawn through geographical points having the same duration of sunshine (or other function of solar radiation) during a given interval of time.

Category:Meteorology

SL

Bale (Capacity)

Category:Abbreviations

Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

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An instrument for measuring relative humidity by means of wet and dry-bulb temperatures.

Category:Energy Terms

Resin formed from reactions involving furfuryl alcohol alone or in combination with other constituents.