The forwarding agreement or carrying agreement between shipper and air carrier and is issued only in nonnegotiable form.

Marine Environmental Protection.

A notched support for the boom when the sail is not raised. Unlike a gallows frame, a crutch is stowed when boat is sailing.

Single-celled organisms, free-living or parasitic, that break down the wastes and bodies of dead organisms, making their components available for reuse by other organisms.

A unit of heat originally defined as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of water through one degree centigrade (the gram-calorie or small calorie), but this proved to be insufficiently precise. The 15

A single inlet compressor with the impeller or impellers mounted on an extended shaft of the driver.

A generator producing alternating current by the rotation of its rotor, and which is powered by a primary mover.

A self regulated London exchange serving world wide interests. It is the world's premier maritime.

Improving paint adhesion on aluminum or aluminum alloys, mainly aircraft skins, by treatment with a solution of' chromic acid. Also called chromodizing or chromatizing. Not to be confused with chromating or chromizing.

Seaman's call to attract attention.

The ceiling classification which is applied when the ceiling height is determined by timing the ascent and disappearance of a ceiling balloon or pilot balloon.

Commodity Box Rate.

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 ...

A unit of signaling speed representing the number of code elements sent per second; often, bits per second.

A solar day; an interval between successive transits of the sun's center across an observer's meridian; the time thus measured is not equal to clock time.

A heat exchanger element enclosed in a boiler. Water is circulated with a pump through the jacket where it picks up heat from the combustion chamber after which the heated water circulates to heat distribution devices. A water jacket is also an enclosed w ...

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A term for stowing cargo in a container.

Electronic Chart System

The portion of the strearnflow during any month or year derived from precipitation in previous months or years.