The difference between amounts of precipitation and runoff for a given storm. It is that portion of the precipitation that remains in the basin as soil moisture, surface storage, ground water, etc.

The working portion of a cruise between ports. A long cruise may have many legs. The distance sailed on one tack. The course from one race mark to another.

Binary cycle systems can be used with liquids at temperatures less than 350 F (177 C). In these systems, the hot geothermal liquid vaporizes a secondary working fluid, which then drives a turbine.

A document, issued by a bank to its customers, listing details of debit and credit transactions over.

Very Large Crude Carrier (between 160,000 - 320,000 DWT)

Where

(Delivered At Frontier) (...Named Place):A Term of Sale which means the sellers fulfill their obligation to deliver when the goods have been made available, cleared for export, at the named point and placed at the frontier, but before the customs Terms of ...

Accountable Item Management System.

A pallet so designed that the forks of a fork lift truck can be inserted from two sides only.

Charges that are applied to the base tariff rate or base contract rate, e.g., bunkers, container, currency, destination/delivery.

A unit of luminous intensity of a light source.

Compartment in the stern of a vessel used for storage; a storage space below the deck in the cockpit.

Now used as a Storage Tanker

Passenger Ship.

Bunker adjustment factor

Medium earth orbit (satellite configuration)

The least noble potential where pitting or crevice corrosion, or both, will initiate and propagate.

Seaman's call to attract attention.

When, Where Ready

Embrittlement under creep conditions of, for example, aluminum alloys and steels that results in abnormally low rupture ductility. In aluminum alloys, iron in amounts above the solubility limit is known to cause such embrittlement; in steels, the phenomen ...