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A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/nationality.
The UART usually does not directly generate or receive the external signals used between different items of equipment. Separate interface devices are used to convert the logic level signals of the UART to and from the external signaling levels, which may be standardized voltage levels, current levels, or other signals.
DILLIGAF – Does It Look Like I Give A Flip(uck), standard Navy slang; DIRNSA – Director of the National Security Agency; DL – Destroyer Leader (outdated) DLG – Guided Missile Destroyer Leader (outdated) DLGN – Nuclear-powered Guided Missile Destroyer Leader (outdated) DM – Destroyer Minelayer (outdated) DM – Illustrator Draftsman
The Standard Carrier Alpha Code, a two-to-four letter identification, is used by the transportation industry to identify freight carriers in computer systems and shipping documents such as Bill of Lading, Freight Bill, Packing List, and Purchase Order.
Also written as lub, which stands for least upper bound.) supp – support of a function. swish – swish function, an activation function in data analysis. Sym – symmetric group (Sym(n) is also written as S n) or symmetric algebra.
P&O (in full, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company [1]) was a British shipping and logistics company dating from the early 19th century. Formerly a public company, it was sold to DP World in March 2006 for £3.9 billion.
The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu) is a general unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports. [1] It is based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container, a standard-sized metal box that can be easily transferred between different modes of transportation, such as ships, trains, and trucks.
It is important to understand that hull number-letter prefixes are not acronyms, and should not be carelessly treated as abbreviations of ship type classifications. Thus, "DD" does not stand for anything more than "Destroyer". "SS" simply means "Submarine". And "FF" is the post-1975 type code for "Frigate." [7]