A type of photoelectric photometer used to measure high-altitude winds on the assumption that stellar scintillation is caused by atmospheric inhomogeneities being carried along by wind near the tropopause level.

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SCM

Subsidies and Countervailing Measures.

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SCM

Stern To Manifold (Distance)

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The ratio of the length of an anchor line, from a vessel's bow to the anchor, to the depth of the water.

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A boat with a flat bottom and square ends.

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Is a positive displacement rotary compressor.

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The cutting of a grid pattern of grooves in a semiconductor material, generally for the purpose of making interconnections.

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A sailor's carving or etching on bones, teeth, tusks or shells.

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Croatian Register of Shipping (Class Society)

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Self Contained underwater Breathing Apparatus - see Aqualung.

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To run before a gale with reduced sail or bare poles. This could be dangerous, with the possibility of being pooped.

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Ragged low clouds, usually stratus fractus. Most often applied when such clouds are moving rapidly beneath a layer of nimbostratus.

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To drive before a gale, with no sail, or only enough to keep the vessel ahead of the sea. Also, low, thin clouds that fly swiftly before the wind.

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Moving the rudder, or a single oar over the stern, back and forth in an attempt to move the boat forward

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A short oar. To scull, is to impel a boat by one oar at the stern.

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An opening in a deck, cockpit, toe-rail or gunwale to allow water to run off the deck and drain back into the sea.

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Openings in the side of a ship to carry off water from the waterways or from the drains.

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A disease caused by lack of Vitamin C historically common to seaman, because of the difficulty in preserving fresh fruits and vegetables.

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(1) To deliberately sink a ship. (2) A small hatch; a round window in the side or deck of a boat that may be opened to admit light and air, and closed tightly when required.

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To sink a vessel by boring holes in her bottom or by opening sea valves.

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