The maximum load that a motor is capable of supplying.

The total price to move cargo from origin to destination, inclusive of all charges.

High Potential Test for Electric Equipment

Trim And Stability Booklet

A popular term for "non-conventional" transportation fuels derived from natural gas (propane, compressed natural gas, methanol, etc.) or biomass materials (ethanol, methanol).

Discharging a battery to 20 percent or less of its full charge capacity.

A technique commonly used to prepare metallographic specimens, in which a high polish is produced by making the specimen the anode in an electrolytic cell, where preferential dissolution at high points smooths the surface.

A pattern of parallel surface cracks that are formed by alternate rapid heating and cooling of the extreme surface metal, sometimes found on forging dies and piercing punches. There may be two sets of parallel cracks one set perpendicular to the other.

A severe weather condition characterized by low temperatures and strong winds bearing a great amount of snow, either falling or picked up from the ground.

Navigational and meteorological warning broadcast service

An instrument, for the recording of two or more meteorological parameters, in which the ventilation is provided by a suction fan.

An automatic, recording cloud height indicator.

A slender threadlike spike of pure crystalline material, such as silicon.

Distilate Marine Deisel Oil

A small balloon, loaded with ballast and inflated so that it will explode at a predetermined altitude, which is attached to a larger balloon.

The frequency-dependent complex-valued proportionality factor (A

A loop or hole which is spliced or tied on the end of a line

A thermal expansion valve.

International Maritime Law Institute (IMO)

Same as constant-level balloon.