#apunta

• Appontage — A technical term borrowed from French denoting the aeronautical action of landing an airplane or helicopter onto the specially designed deck of an aircraft carrier or naval vessel. This structural procedure requires microscopic precision, advanced optical guidance systems, and the utilization of arresting wires to stop the aircraft within an extremely short distance.
• To secure alongside — To execute an approach, guiding, and securing maneuver of a light vessel or a seaplane near a mother ship or onto a specially designated platform; in an extended technical sense, it represents the action of ensuring a stable structural connection between two mobile elements of a maritime transport system.
• Docking operation — The technical operation and its result of securing or docking alongside; the entirety of maneuvers and structural systems used for guiding, catching, and immobilizing a light vessel or an aircraft onto a base ship.
• Interlocutory decree — A historical and archaic term, borrowed from Romance languages, designating an intermediary judicial decision, an ordinance, or a provision by which a court fixed deadlines, established procedural rules, or granted sums of money as a pension or provisional salary; in old colloquial language, it could also indicate a scheduled meeting or a formal agreement.
• Interlocutory decrees — The plural form of the noun 'apuntament'; it designates the entirety of intermediary decisions made by a court, successive appointments, or sums of money granted periodically as allowances, wages, or provisional pensions to officials based on judicial or administrative orders.
• Docking alongside — The act of docking or securing alongside and its result; a naval or aeronautical maneuver through which a light vessel, a helicopter, or a seaplane is guided, coupled, and structurally fixed aboard a mother ship or onto a specially prepared offshore platform.