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Category:Energy Terms

The amount chargeable to capital gains tax (CGT) from gains made on the disposal of an asset. In.

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The exchange rate between two currencies, other than those that form a market's principal rates..

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The maximum static pulling force produced through a vessel’s harbor pile towing test.

Category:Technical Terms

Passing another vessel.

Category:Sea Words

(1) The land in general, but usually refers to that part adjacent to the water. (2) A timber used in damage control to brace bulkheads and decks. (3) One of the many wooden props by which the ribs or frames of a vessel are externally supported while build ...

Category:Sea Words

A document, relevant to life assurance, personal pension and unit trust products, which is given to.

Category:Financial Terms

A certificate, issued by a bank to a depositor, indicating a sum of money has been deposited for a.

Category:Financial Terms

A certificate issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to satisfy import regulations of foreign countries; indicates that a U.S. shipment has been inspected and found free from harmful pests and plant diseases.

Category:Sea Words

Depending upon as a condition

Category:Sea Words

A floatation device shaped like a U and thrown to people in the water in emergencies.

Category:Sea Words

Heavy-duty wire used to lower heavy instruments overboard from the trawl winch.

Category:Sea Words

One layer of glass in a window frame. It has very little insulating value (R-1) and provides only a thin barrier to the outside and can account for considerable heat loss and gain.

Category:Energy Terms

Compression of a flat or standard bale of cotton to approximately 32 pounds per cubic foot. Usually applies to cotton exported or shipped coastwise.

Category:Sea Words

Line attached to the bottom of the boom used to flatten the sail by pulling the boom down, and thus tightening the luff of the sail. (2) A line used for hauling down a jib or staysail.

Category:Sea Words

The latest time cargo may be delivered to a terminal for loading to a scheduled train or ship.

Category:Sea Words

Wind turbines that operate at a constant rotor revolutions per minute (RPM) and are optimized for energy capture at a given rotor diameter at a particular speed in the wind power curve.

Category:Energy Terms

Those gases, such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, tropospheric ozone, methane, and low level ozone that are transparent to solar radiation, but opaque to long wave radiation, and which contribute to the greenhouse effect.

Category:Energy Terms

is an ideal process that may be stopped and made to retrace its steps and restore to the systems or surroundings all work and heat previously removed. It is frictionless.

Category:Sea Words

Old expression for the engraving of the wind-rose on charts.

Category:Sea Words