Wind with a speed below 1 knot (1 mph); Beaufort scale number 0.

A sunshine recorder of the type in which the time scale is supplied by a chronograph. It consists of two bulbs, one of which is blackened, which communicate through a glass tube of small diameter. The tube is partially filled with mercury and contains two ...

York-Antwerp Rules 1950 Rules to settle General Average claims. Their use is normally stipulated in the B/L or C/P.

Aluminium Alloy, High Speed Passenger.

A small tube or capillary filled with electrolyte, terminating close to the metal surface under study, and used to provide an ionically conducting path without diffusion between an electrode under study and a reference electrode.

An outdoor temperature, usually 20 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit, at which a heatpump's output equals the heating demand. Below the balance point, supplementary heat is needed.

Foundered

Heavy longitudinal timbers fastened over the keelson. The timbers of the bow and stern are fastened to the deadwood.

A term for stowing cargo in a container.

The heat liberated by the combustion of a unit quantity of a fuel under specific conditions; measured in calories.

The stress level in a material at or above the yield strength but below the ultimate strength, i.e., a stress in the plastic range.

Fans in which the direction of the flow of the air from inlet to outlet remains unchanged; includes propeller, tubaxail, and vaneaxial type fans.

An individual legally appointed by a court to settle the affairs of a deceased person who failed to.

The area of the bow or stern projecting above and beyond a perpendicular from the water line at stem or stern.

A rope is fagged when the end is untwisted.

An energy storage device composed of one or more electrolyte cells.

A man employed in a vessel of war to take charge of a storeroom; as, boatswain's yeoman the man that has charge of the stores, of rigging, etc.

Corrosion in which zinc is selectively leached from zinc-containing alloys. Most commonly found in copper-zinc alloys containing less than 83% copper after extended service in water containing dissolved oxygen; the parting of zinc from an alloy (in some b ...

A method for making sheets of polycrystalline silicon (for solar photovlotaic devices) in which molten silicon is drawn upward by capillary action through a mold.

Place where crew is accommodated.