The amount of air that a filter can handle. Expressed in CFM.

Overboard and by the ship's side.

A device designed to remove solids, such as dirt, scale, rust and other contaminants from the air system.

A mooring buoy or spar. A group of piles driven close together and bound with wire cables into a single structure.

A traditionally shaped anchor having flukes perpendicular to the stock of the anchor and connected by a shank. These are less common than modern anchors such as the plow and lightweight anchors.

A receptacle, open to atmosphere, that is used to used to collect condensate. For example, two or three drain pipes from various filters may be discharging into a funnel. In this case the funnel is a tundish.

To install the sails on the boom or the forestay.

A slang term for an open-top trailer or container with a tarpaulin cover.

Said of the anchor when just clear of the bottom (leaving or moving).

Is the dynamic viscosity divided by the density

A pulpit located on the stern.

For ships, a cargo handling area parallel to the shoreline where a vessel normally ties up.- For land transportation, a loading or unloading platform at an industrial location or carrier terminal.

Same as not under command.

Surface on which the bearing seal rides in an oil lubricated tailshaft bearing.

A vessel which, according to the applicable Navigation Rule, has right-of-way. Also known as the "stand on" vessel.

(turbine oils) -- a test for determining the ability of an oil to aid in preventing the rusting of ferrous parts in the presence of water.

Recovering and utilizing the heat content of the compressed air.

Short period oscillation in level of enclosed, or partly enclosed, area of water when not due to the action of tide-raising forces.

Any raised portion of a vessel/s hull above an upermost continuous deck such as a poop, bridge or forecastle and extending from side to side of the vessel.