Federal Acquisition Regulations.

Sailing close-hauled

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

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

International Harbour Masters' Association

A treatment of metal in a solution of a hexavalent chromium compound to produce a conversion coating consisting of trivalent and hexavalent chromium compounds.

To sail large, with wind about four points abaft beam.

The use of direct, diffuse, or reflected sunlight to provide supplemental lighting for building interiors.

In reference to solid biomass fuels, such as wood, having zero moisture content.

A legal document which records the obligation of one individual to pay a specified sum to another.

A general term to designate apparatus designed to observe the details of weather during thunderstorms.

For a given cloud or cloud laver. the lowest level in the atmosphere at which the air contains a perceptible quantity of cloud particles.

National Cargo Bureau

Clouds which cover between 6/10 and 9/10 of the sky. See Sky Terminology.

Passenger

A measure of seasonal or annual efficiency of a central air conditioner or air conditioning heat pump. It takes into account the variations in temperature that can occur within a season and is the average number of Btu of cooling delivered for every watt- ...

The quantity of goods that may be imported without restriction during a set period of time.

Corrosion resulting from a cathodic condition of a structure usually caused by the reaction of an amphoteric metal with the alkaline products of electrolysis.

(1) Hardening suitable a = b alloys (most often certain copper or titanium alloys) by solution treating and quenching to develop a martensite-like structure. (2) In ferrous alloys, hardening by austenitizing and then cooling at a rate such that a substant ...

An obsolete historical term denoting a form of stress-corrosion cracking most frequently encountered in carbon steels or iron-chromium-nickel alloys that are exposed to concentrated hydroxide solutions at temperatures of 200 to 250