The process of deciding how to apportion investment capital between the various possible asset.

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

European Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation EASDAQ was set up in 1996 as a pan-European stock market for technology and growth stocks. It now.

Kilowatt hour - A unit of work, being the work done in one hour at the rate of 1,000 watts.

Large Amplitude Motions and Loads

Corrosion effect on a metal per unit of time. The type of corrosion rate used depends on the technical .system and on the type of corrosion effect. Thus, corrosion rate may be expressed as an increase in corrosion depth per unit of time (penetration rate, ...

An air distribution outlet, typically located in the ceiling, which mixes conditioned air with room air.

This is when a consignment is unloaded from one form of transport (lorry or ship) to another during the course of its journey from place of origin to place of destination. In a letter of credit, the buyer can say whether this is allowed or not allowed.

A unit of energy equal to 101 ergs or to 0.2389 calories.

Electrode reaction equivalent to a transfer of negative charge from the electronic to the ionic conductor. A cathodic reaction is a reduction process. An example common in corrosion is: Ox + ne s Red.

Shipboard Computer-Aided Maintenance Program

Lacking a relationship to a time base or clock. In asynchronous communications, individual data characters are sent at an arbitrary rate.

Planning Board for Ocean Shipping.

Anemometer which measures wind speed by the speed of rotation of 3 or 4 hemispherical or conical cups, each fixed to the end of a horizontal arm projecting from a vertical axis. See condenser-discharge anemometer, contact anemometer. Compare to bridled-cu ...

Physical equipment used in data processing. Compare to firmware, software.

Term assurance in which premiums are increased in line with the retail price index and hence the sum.

Infrared radiation emitted by or being propagated through the atmosphere.

Trans Alaska Pipeline Service

In the US, the rules under which a corporation's internal management operates. They include details.

A building structural element that is built onto a building's exterior along the inner edges of all the windows, and extending from the ground to the eaves. Wingwalls help ventilate rooms that have only one exterior wall which leads to poor cross ventilat ...