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

Provisional value for plane-strain fracture toughness.

Federal Acquisition Regulations.

(1) As a command, it means to go in the direction indicated, e.g., "Lay foward" (go up) or "Lay alow!" (come down). (2) Of a line or rope, it refers to the direction in which the strands are twisted. (3) Lay the course: able to fetch a given point when cl ...

Association of Unit Trusts and Investment Funds A trade association formed in 1959 to represent the interests of unit trusts and known then as.

Cargo Ship Safety Radio Telegraphy/Telephony Certificate

The maximum credit an individual may secure from his/her.

A wind blowing in a direction opposite to the heading of a moving object, thus opposing the object's intended progress; the opposite of a tailwind.

A material or structural element that inhibits air flow into and out of a building's envelope or shell. This is a continuous sheet composed of polyethylene, polypropylene, or extruded polystyrene. The sheet is wrapped around the outside of a house during ...

An ideal substance that absorbs all radiation falling on it, and reflecting nothing.

A class of instruments employed to determine the electric potential at a point in the atmosphere, and ultimately the atmospheric electric field.

Resting on the surface of the water.

In Water Survey

The formation of complex chemical species by the coordination of groups of atoms termed ligands to a central ion, commonly a metal ion. Generally, the ligand coordinates by providing a pair of electrons that forms an ionic or covalent bond to the central ...

A forceful resistance to recognized authority. A refusal to obey a legal order of a superior officer is also considered mutiny.

A bank operating in the seller's country, that handles letters of credit in behalf of a foreign bank.

Reserve Capacity: RC The number of minutes it takes to discharge a battery to 10.5 volts by 25-amp discharge at 80°F.

Sailing close-hauled

A type of filter capacity test in which a clogging contaminant is added to the influent of a filter, under specified test conditions, to produce a given rise in pressure drop across the filter or until a specified reduction of flow is reached. Filter life ...

A standard unit of electrical power equal to one thousand watts, or to the energy consumption at a rate of 1000 Joules per second.