The group of bits which a computer processes as a unit; often, 8 bits.

Timbers used to support the deck planking of a wooden ship; also for supporting hatches.

Sundays, holidays, included

A sliding or hinged opening in the deck, providing people with access to the cabin or space below; an opening in a boat's deck fitted with a watertight cover.

International Chamber of Shipping

The underside of the deck, viewed from below the ceiling.

Low Pressure

A situation where an individual is incapable of settling his/her debts and has been served a.

Abbreviation for "General Department Store Merchandise." A classification of commodities that includes goods generally shipped by mass-merchandise companies. This commodity structure occurs only in service contracts.

In a semiconductor, the energy difference between the highest valence band and the lowest conduction band.

Barge, Liquefied Nitrogen maximum pressure 10kg/cm

A manifest that lists all cargo carried on a specific vessel voyage.

An agency of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture that makes loans to states and territories in the U.S. for rural electrification and the furnishing of electric energy to persons in rural areas who do not receive central station service. It also furnishes and i ...

(BOP)A country's financial position, with other countries of the world, which is made up of its.

Agency for Internatinal Development.

(ESOP)A plan devised to encourage employees to purchase stock in their company usually at a price below.

Fast Rescue Craft

Asphalt Tanker.

Australia (flag)

A fractographic term describing ductile fracture that occurs through the formation and coalescence of microvoids along the fracture path. The fracture surface of such a ductile fracture appears dimpled when observed at high magnification and usually is mo ...