To cast overboard or off. To discard something as unwanted or burdensome. Goods or equipment may be jettisoned to lighten a ship in danger.

The temperature of a medium, such as gas or liquid, which comes into contact with or surrounds an apparatus or building element.

Resting on the surface of the water.

A combination of banking and insurance business. A high street bank, for example, might sell both.

The act of striking or collision of a moving vessel against a stationary object.

An annual charge made in a company's profit and loss account to reduce the value of an asset to zero.

The concept in technical analysis that a trend in a share price is more meaningful if the number of.

The indicating part of an instrument. For example, the hand of a watch or the meniscus of a mercury column.

Kuching-Pending and Sarikei Service.

The selective leaching or corrosion of a specific constituent (Al, Ni, Mo, Ni) from an alloy.

Norwegian classification society.

Office of Naval Research

The main rate of income tax in the UK, which for the year 2002-2003 is 22%. The rate is applied.

An opening; in solar collectors, the area through which solar radiation is admitted and directed to the absorber.

Efficient Deck Hand.

See principal stress (normal).

Provisional value for plane-strain fracture toughness.

Automated Surface Observing System. A network of instrumented weather stations deployed primarily by the National Weather Service to make weather observations without operator involvement.

Current efficiency at the cathode.

A wall that carries ceiling rafters or roof trusses.