A seaman's personal "painter" is his lifeline, and if it is severed, he dies.

The forward curve of the stem of a ship.

Cape Verde Islands (flag).

Contingent Valuation Method

Cooperative Working Agreements

Coastwise Service in the Philippines.

Hundred weight (United States, 100 pounds: U.K.,112)

Cylindrical Water-Tube Boiler Survey.

Cyprus (Flag)

Abbreviation for Container Yard.- The designation for full container receipt/delivery

Generally, an instrument designed to measure or estimate the blueness of the sky. See Linke-scale.

Cycloidal Propeller

In alternating current, the current goes from zero potential or voltage to a maximum in one direction, back to zero, and then to a maximum potential or voltage in the other direction. The number of complete cycles per second determines the current frequen ...

A single complete operation consisting of progressive phases starting and ending at the neutral position.

Amount of time for a compressor to complete one cycle.

Cyclical stocks are those companies who earnings tend to ebb and flow with the fortunes of the.

Stock in companies whose profits move in a cyclical manner, normally in phase with the economy. .

The loss of heat as the water circulates through a water heater tank and inlet and outlet pipes.

An area of low atmospheric pressure which has a closed circulation that is cyclonic (counterclockwise in northern hemisphere and clockwise in southern hemisphere).

a type of separator for removal of larger particles from an exhaust gas stream. Gas laden with particulates enters the cyclone and is directed to flow in a spiral causing the entrained particulates to fall out and collect at the bottom. The gas exits near ...