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A form requiring all data in a commercial invoice along with a certificate of value and/or a certificate of origin. Required in a few countries (usually former British territories) and usually serves as a seller's commercial invoice.

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The difference between the discharge pressure and the intake pressure.

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Refers to the shape of a boat's (usually power boat) hull. A deep V hull is usually good at cutting through rough waves at high speeds.

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The portion of the flow stream which has already passed through the system or the portion of the system located after a filter or separator/filter.

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In a manner, or fashion, befitting a seaman.

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In spray painting applications, air trapped in a paint film caused by poor atomization during spraying.

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Short ton

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A bolted rim used for attachment to another object.

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A mobile container-handling crane used to load/unload containers to/from railcars.

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The mechanical power required to compress polytropically and to deliver, through the specified range of pressures, the gas delivered by the compressor.

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Open ocean sailing

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Anything that is straightforward and easy.

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Water service between two coasts; in the U.S., this usually refers to water service between the Atlantic and Pacific or Gulf Coasts.

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To braid used with small stuff.

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Single tariff item, established to move multiple commodities needed for a specified project, usually construction.

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Beams sometimes fitted over the decks for the stowage of heavy boats or cargo.

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A large reinforced eye in the leech and clew of a sail that allows a line to fasten to it; e.g., the reef cringle and clew cringle.

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The recognition of a person by his recognizable characteristics (originally, the shape of the nose)

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(1) A navigator shoots the sun by using a sextant to measure its altitude. (2) A sailing vessel shoots when she forges ahead to windward with her sails luffing.

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A layer of dust built up on an air filter.

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