The date to which accounts are made up for a company. When a company is incorporated, it will.

Also 'account payee only'. Words written on the face of a cheque between two parallel diagonal.

A material that extracts one or more substances from a fluid (gas or liquid) medium on contact, and which changes physically and/or chemically in the process. The less volatile of the two working fluids in an absorption cooling device.

A partially raised deck over the engine and boiler rooms, always around the smokestack, to let the hot air and fumes escape.

A measure of the rate at which the air in an interior space is replace by outside (or conditioned) air by ventilation and infiltration; usually measured in cubic feet per time interval (hour), divided by the volume of air in the room.

Charterparty or Charter Party

Abbreviation for "Uniform Freight Classification."

Electrode reaction equivalent to a transfer of positive charge from the electronic to the ionic conductor. An anodic reaction is an oxidation process. An example common in corrosion is: Me -> Me(+n) + n(e-)

A film on a metal surface resulting from an electrolytic treatment at the anode..

Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

Alongside

Booking Note

Azimuthing Stern Drive.

Delivered Duty Unpaid Delivered duty unpaid means that the seller delivers the goods to the buyer, not cleared for import, and not unloaded from any arriving means of transport at the named place of destination. The seller has to bear the costs and risks ...

Eastern Dredging Association

Pipes made of heavy cast iron or steel through which the anchor chain runs; placed in the ship's bow on each side of the stem, or in some cases also at the stern when a stern anchor is used.

Breathing air

Where an option is neither sold nor exercised but allowed to lapse at.

A statement by a commodity broker to a client when a futures transaction is closed out. Sometimes.

Double Acting.