A reference sought from a bank by a company or individual regarding the creditworthiness of another.

A unit of energy per unit area commonly employed in radiation theory. Equal to one gram-calorie per square centimeter.

The general term for anemometers operating on the principle that the heat transfer to air from an object at an elevated temperature is a function of the air speed. Examples are the hot-wire anemometer and the katathermometer.

Waste Heat Boiler Survey

Marine Environmentally High Risk Areas.

An instrument, located at the surface observing station, which is used to record the data presented by a radiosonde aloft.

Closest Point of Approach

The error in a compass reading caused by the heel of a boat.

A person in receipt of an.

A material that retards the movement of water vapor through a building element (walls, ceilings) and prevents insulation and structural wood from becoming damp and metals from corroding. Often applied to insulation batts or separately in the form of treat ...

see Air-Source Heat Pump.

The maximum stress that presumably leads to fatigue fracture in a specified number of stress cycles. If the stress is not completely reversed. the value of the mean stress. the minimum stress, or the stress ratio should also be stated. Compare with endura ...

(Adverb) Today - In our days. I.e Nowadays most ships produce their own fresh water in an evaporator fed with sea water and using the heat of the engine.

The minimum value of Kc for any given material and condition, which is attained when rapid crack propagation in the opening mode is governed by plane-strain conditions.

Deviation. Vessel departure from specified voyage course

Hopper Dredger

The potential difference at the junction of two dissimilar substances.

A protective coating applied to circuits.

The piston chamber in a compressor or actuator.

An area of low atmospheric pressure which has a closed circulation that is cyclonic (counterclockwise in northern hemisphere and clockwise in southern hemisphere).