A device attached to a meteorological instrument to provide ventilation; usually a suction fan.

Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier.

An instrument whose calibration is determined by comparison with an absolute instrument.

Bar charts have a wide variety of applications and in the financial markets are used by technical.

International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code

The maximum difference in output for any given input (within the specified range) when the value is approached first with increasing, and then with decreasing, input signals. Caused by energy absorption in the elements of the measuring instrument. Usually ...

A relatively small-scale, upward moving current of air.

Heat exchangers for cooling air or gas discharge from compressors. Designed to reduce the temperature and liquefy condensate vapors. Both air cooled and water cooled units are available.

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

A type of combustion heating appliance in which the combustion gases are vented to the outside, either with a fan (forced) or by natural convection.

An instrument used to indicate wind direction.

That portion of supply air that is drawn from outside, plus any recirculated air that has been treated to maintain a desired air quality.

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.

Same as ceiling light.

A temperature scale with the ice point at 273 degrees and boiling point of water at 373 degrees. It is intended to approximate the Kelvin temperature scale with sufficient accuracy for many sciences, notably meteorology.

International Commercial Terms

Touching or fast to the bottom.

The record of an aneroid barograph.

The weight of a material per unit of volume compared to the weight of the same volume of water.

In the US, these are securities issued by federal government.