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Tonnage and size
Tonnage is a measure of the size or cargo carrying capacity of a ship.

Tonnage and cargo
Tonnage measured a ship's cargo capacity and was used to calculate tax and harbour dues.
As commercial cargo sailing ships are now largely extinct, Gross Tonnage is becoming the universal method of calculating ships dues, and is also a more straightforward and transparent method of assessment.
* Gross Register Tonnage, a measure of the cargo capacity of a ship
* Net Register Tonnage, the volume of cargo a vessel can carry
In its four-and-a-half months under " Tonnage Tunner ", it had made 32, 632 sorties ; delivered 130, 170 tons of cargo ; carried 155, 294 passengers including paratroopers ; and evacuated 72, 960 casualties.

Tonnage and carrying
* Brutto Register Tonnage, used ( in a variety of forms ) in several languages for Gross Register Tonnage, a measure of the carrying capacity of ships.

Various and measures
Various measures were carried out to improve conditions in the workplace.
Various measures were immediately carried out, although, since Henry spent six and a half years out of the first eight years of his reign in France, much work had to be done at a distance.
Various royal castles were maintained during the period either as part of the English border defences, like Carlisle, or forming part of the internal security measures in Scotland itself, like Stirling Castle.
Various members of the U. S. Cabinet must report on a regular basis about any measures that U. S. federal departments takes to make the Sudanese Government comply with the measures in the Act.
Various correlation measures in use may be undefined for certain joint distributions of X and Y.
Various other measures were proposed in mid-1969, including purchase of U. S. weapons such as the Mark 45 ASTOR nuclear torpedo, the Mark 48 Mod-1 torpedo or the Subroc rocket.
Various measures were, however, undertaken to cushion the negative effects of liberalisation.
Various measures are often used to assess the progress of patients being treated for heart failure.
Various rankings consider measures of research excellence and / or influence, student choices, eventual success and / or demographics, on surveys, and others.
Various methods can be used to evaluate abstract quality, e. g. rating by readers, checklists ( not necessary in structured abstracts ), and readability measures ( such as Flesch Reading Ease ).
* Various measures were introduced which aided educational television, college dormitories, medical education, and community libraries.
* Various measures were carried out by the Kennedy Justice Department to enforce court orders and existing legislation.
Various measures of statistical dispersion satisfy these.
Various measures were proposed which would but have aggravated the situation.
Various measures approved by the populace included modernizing and repairing flats, economic development, and improved public open spaces.
Various statutory measures to keep the Welsh in check were enforced in the 14th and 15th centuries.
**( Various further measures that were not, in the end, carried out.
Various measures to mitigate the impact on the public service obligations of the institution were contemplated by Parliament, and a compromise was agreed to limit the impact of the deficit, the main component of which was the authorization of the sale of DR's concert hall into private ownership.
Various stopgap measures were taken to stop the leaks in 1981.
Various measures taken by the government to solve the problem have seen relatively few floods in Teluk Intan nowadays.
Various trends include the introduction of more expensive options, space-saving measures, a larger number of ovens, thicker countertops
Various measures were brought in by the local council and police to stop the displays.
Various measures like creation of bus lanes were taken to alleviate the problem.

Various and size
Various reasons have been suggested for the resistance to the Celsius system in the U. S., including the larger size of each degree Celsius ( resulting in the need for decimals where integer Fahrenheit degrees were adequate for much non-technical work ), the lower zero point in the Fahrenheit system ( which reduces the number of negative signs when measurements such as weather data were averaged ), and the more intuitive alignment of its 0-100 scale to the ordinary range of outdoor temperatures seen in most of the U. S. ( e. g., 0 ° F
Various naval conferences were held during the period between the First and Second World Wars to limit the number and size of major warships of the five great naval powers.
Various size bluefish remain in the water throughout the Summer and into Fall.
Various species, which vary greatly in size and form, can be found growing natively on every continent except Antarctica.
Various boombox designs differ greatly in size.
Various sizes are made: miniature bars called " Fun Size " ( 19. 7 g ) and " Snack Time " ( 36. 5 g ) ( both sold in multiple packs ); a larger multi-pack size of 54 g ; the regular sized single 58 g bar and a " king-size " 84 g bar which has since been replaced by " Mars Duo " ( 91 g )-a pack that contains 2 smaller bars instead of 1 large one.
Various sub-species are proposed, differences in appearance being mostly a large variation in shape, size and colour of the casque and facial wattles.
Dard Hunter in Papermaking through Eighteen Centuries corroborates this by writing, “ The Chinese used starch as a size for paper as early as A. D. 768 and its use continued until the fourteenth century when animal glue was substituted .” In the early modern paper mills in Europe, which produced paper for printing and other uses, the sizing agent of choice was gelatin, as Susan Swartzburg writes in Preserving Library Materials:Various substances have been used for sizing through the ages, from gypsum to animal gelatin .” Hunter describes the process of sizing in these paper mills in the following:
Various constraints are often applied to help ensure that the desired properties expected at the theoretical limit of infinite block size occur at a finite block size.
; Compression: Various schemes can be employed to shrink the size of the source data to be stored so that it uses less storage space.
* Various names refer to the marbles ' size.
Various shapes and sizes of loop can be used depending on the size and orientation of the lesion.
Various types of roofs may be used, including earthbag extensions of the wall which create barrel vaulted or domed roofs, although vaulted roofs of much size are difficult to achieve with earthbags.
Various scale sizes of RC scale aircraft have been built in the decades since modern digital-proportional, miniaturized RC gear came on the market in the 1960s, and everything from indoor-flyable electric powered RC Scale models, to " giant scale " RC Scale models, in scale size ranges that usually run from 20 % to 25 %, and upwards to 30 to 50 % size of some smaller full scale aircraft designs, that can replicate some of the actual flight characteristics of the full scale aircraft they are based on, have been enjoyed, and continue to be built and flown, in sanctioned competition and for personal pleasure, as part of the RC scale aeromodeling hobby.
Various video game magazines praised Ironsword for its size, graphics and sound, detailed characters and bosses, and gameplay.
Various statistical tools can be used to measure the average misorientation, grain size, and crystallographic texture.
Various assembling schemes based on time and / or size exist ( see burst switching ).

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