The limiting values of ceiling, visibility, and wind, or runway visual range, established as safety minimum for aircraft landings and take-offs.

The property of a material by virtue of which deformation caused by stress disappears upon removal of the stress. A perfectly elastic body completely recovers its original shape and dimensions after release of stress.

Ports and Waterways Safety Act.

Oil pollution preparedness and response

A deviation to move cargo on the return leg of a voyage for the purpose of minimizing ballast mileage and thereby reducing transportation costs.

The number of degrees per day that the daily average temperature (the mean of the maximum and minimum recorded temperatures) is below a base temperature, usually 65 degrees Fahrenheit, unless otherwise specified; used to determine indoor space heating req ...

Can occur any time warm, moist air blows over a surface cool enough to drop it's temperature below the dew point.

Construction Differential Subsidy: A direct subsidy paid to U.S. shipyards building U.S.-flag ships to offset high construction costs in American shipyards. An amount of subsidy (up to 50 percent) is determined by estimates of construction cost differenti ...

Generally speaking the word amidships means in the middle portion of a vessel.

United States Coast Guard

A factor of proportionality representing the amount of substance diffusing across a unit area through a unit concentration gradient in unit time.

The ratings under which specified appliances convert energy sources into useful energy, as determined by procedures established by the U.S. Department of Energy.

The true freezing point of water. The temperature at which a mixture of air-saturated pure water and pure ice may exist in equilibrium at a pressure of one standard atmosphere.

Fitted with cabins and catering facilities for offshore crews. Semisubmersible accommodation units are ofte called "Flotels".

In the US, the total number of shares which a corporation may issue, in accordance with the limits.

(ADL)An insurance term which refers to the basic things that people need to be able to do in order look.

The chemical element commonly used as the dopant in solar photovoltaic device or cell material.

A fractographic pattern of radial marks (shear ledges) that look like nested letters "V"; sometimes called a herringbone pattern. Chevron patterns are typically found on brittle fracture surfaces in parts whose widths are considerably greater than their t ...

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

Portable Electronic Thermometer