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Category:Financial Terms

A legal document which records the obligation of one individual to pay a specified sum to another.

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Formation of a single water drop by the union of two or more colliding drops.

Category:Meteorology

Not attached to the shore or the ground in any manner. Usually, but not necessarily, moving through or making way through the water.

Category:Sea Words

A measure of the flow of current (in amperes) over one hour.

Category:Energy Terms

Single Anchor Leg Mooring

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Unit Logistics Management System

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Ship equipped with her own cranes.

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HB

Hopper Barge

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A graph that indicates the distribution of wind speeds as a function of the cumulative number of hours that the wind speed exceeds a given wind speed in a year.

Category:Energy Terms

Very generally, any moving- stream of air. It has no particular technical connotation.

Category:Meteorology

A hard, dense type of coal, that is hard to break, clean to handle, difficult to ignite, and that burns with an intense flame and with the virtual absence of smoke because it contains a high percentage of fixed carbon and a low percentage of volatile matt ...

Category:Energy Terms

Western Dredging Association

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(1) A sailing vessel common in the Far East. It's flat-bottomed, high sterned, has square bows, and has two or three masts carrying lugsails. (2) Old and condemned rope.

Category:Sea Words

World Dredging Association

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Any fixed object that a navigator may use to find his position, such as permanent land or sea markers, buoys, radiobeacons, and lighthouses, and to indicate safe and unsafe waters.

Category:Sea Words

Air

A colorless, odorless, tasteless gas. A mixture of individual gases. The gaseous mixture surrounding the earth. Standard density of dry air free of carbon dioxide (0

Category:Sea Words

Is the force in newton required to move a fluid layer of one square meter area and a thickness of one meter with a velocity of one meter per second.

Category:Sea Words

Plating with dummy cathodes.

The use of direct, diffuse, or reflected sunlight to provide supplemental lighting for building interiors.

Category:Energy Terms