This is when a load is sent in more than one consignment. In a letter of credit, the buyer can say whether this is allowed or not allowed.

A cargo consolidator in ocean trades who will buy space from a carrier and subsell it to smaller shippers. The NVOCC issues bills of lading, publishes tariffs and otherwise conducts itself as an ocean common carrier, except that it will not provide the ac ...

A unit measure of electrical conduction. The facility with which a substance conducts electricity, as represented by the current density per unit electrical-potential gradient in the direction of flow. Electrical conductivity is the reciprocal of electric ...

The condition of being electrically separated from other metallic structures or the environment.

Altitude

Liquefied Hazardous Gas

A movable plate used to control air flow; in a wood stove or fireplace, used to control the amount and direction of air going to the fire.

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 ...

Satellite Navigation

A liquid-in-metal thermometer in which mercury is enclosed in a steel envelope. The change in internal pressure caused by the temperature variation is measured by a Bourdon tube which is connected to the mercury by a capillary tube. This instrument is hig ...

A strongly alkaline solution into which metal is immersed for etching. for neutralizing acid, or for removing organic materials such as greases or paints.

Hopper Barge

The ratio of light reflected by a surface to the light falling on it.

Marine Coastguard Agency

A structural, load-carrying building member with an open web system that supports floors and roofs utilizing wood or specific steels and is designed as a simple span member.

The process of decomposing biomass with anaerobic bacteria to produce biogas.

European Court of Justice.

Whitening and loss of gloss of a usually organic coating caused by moisture. Also called blooming.

Plating with dummy cathodes.

The potential of a metal surface necessary to decompose the electrolyte of a cell or a component/substance thereof.