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Resolve, to
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
To reduce a traverse, or day`s work, to its exact limits.
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Respondentia, английский
- A loan made upon goods laden in a ship, for which the borrower is personally responsible; differing therein from bottomry, where the ship and tackle are liable. in bottomry the lender runs no risk, though the goods should be lost; and upon respondentia the lender must be paid his principal and interest, though the ship perish, provided the goods be safe.
- A form of cargo mortgage executed by a master who is unable to contact his owners but needs funds for repairs, or to continue and complete a voyage. see also bottomry.
Resisting medium, английский
An assumed thin ethereal fluid, which, from the retardation of encke`s comet, may be supposed to pervade the planetary space—perhaps the spiritus subtilissimus of newton—in virtue of which periodical comets seem to have their velocity diminished, and their orbits contracted at every revolution.
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