Sailing on a run with the wind coming over the stern from the same side as the boom (danger of jibing).

In situations where a person owes money to a creditor, and the creditor is not prepared to accept a.

The interface between an eletrode or a suspended particle and an electrolyte created by charge-charge interaction (charge separation) leading to an alignment of oppositely charged ions at the surface of the electrode or particle. The simplest model is rep ...

Technical Advisory Group

A term used in conjunction with policies such as low cost endowment assurance and low start.

A method of predicting heating and/or cooling loads using instantaneous load calculation at different outdoor dry-bulb temperatures, and multiplying the result by the number of hours of occurrence of each temperature.

Nippon Kaiji Kyokai. Japanese Classification Society

Wind with a speed between 4 and 27 knots (4 and 31 mph); Beaufort scale numbers 2 through 6.

High Speed Craft. Mostly ferries, catamaran

Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association The self regulating organisation originally responsible for governing financial advisers. Became.

Apparatus using the combined simultaneous action of a bimetallic thermometer and a hair hygrometer to move a needle in front of a divided scale. fts construction permits dew point variations to be indicated approximately.

The height at which the maximum wind speed occurs, determined in a winds-aloft observation.

A navigation instrument used to measure the apparent height of a landmark whose actual height is known, such as the top of a lighthouse. From this information, the ship's distance from that landmark can be calculated.

United States Department of Agriculture

Medical First Aid Guide

In the UK the term 'assurance' tends to be used where insurance is taken out against something which.

Water-Tube Boiler Survey

Mandatory Annual Survey (SOLAS,MARPOL)

International Maritime Industries Forum

(1) A reduction of the anodic reaction rate of an electrode involved in corrosion. (2) The process in metal corrosion by which metals become passive. (3) The changing of a chemically active surface of' a metal to a much less reactive state. Contrast with ...