A water-temperature thermometer provided with an insulated container around the bulb. It is lowered into the sea on a line until it has had time to reach the temperature of the surface water, then withdrawn and read. The insulated water surrounding the bu ...

Automated Requisition Management System.

Five Year Fee.

Alliance of Maritime Regional Interests in Europe.

A form of movable insulation that uses tiny polystyrene beads blown into the space between two window panes.

The utilization of solar energy through photosynthesis.

Facilitation Committee (IMO)

Belgium (flag)

Auxiliary Waste Heat Boiler Survey.

Water Line-To-Hatch Coaming

A winch designed specifically for lowering、retaining and hoisting an accommodation ladder, and having a rope storage drum.

The absorption of carbon atoms by a metal at high temperatures; it may remain dissolved, or form metal carbides; Absorption and diffusion of carbon into solid ferrous alloys by heating, to a temperature usually above Ac in contact with a suitable carbonac ...

A piece of wood placed across the head of a boat's rudder, with a rope attached to each end, by which the boat is steered.

Worldscale

Is the saturation pressure at the critical temperature. It is the highest vapor pressure that the liquid can exert.

The measure of the efficiency of fluorescent lamp ballasts. It is the relative light output divided by the power input.

Annual Load Line Inspection.

Accounts Receivable.

Relating to dry cargo lifted on/off in one piece by cranes or derricks.

A case hardening process in which a suitable ferrous material is heated above the lower transformation temperature in a gaseous atmosphere of such composition as to cause simultaneous absorption of carbon and nitrogen by the surface and, by diffusion, cre ...