A grooved metal extrusion fitted on a forestay and used to secure the luff of a sail by holding its bolt rope in place.

An international company whose services include travel and financial products and which is probably.

General name for an instrument which measures the earth's magnetic field intensity.

Smooth Water Services.

A freight booking made by a skipper or freight forwarder to serve space but not actually having a specific cargo at the time the booking is made. Carriers often overbook a vessel by 10 to 20 percent in recognition that "windy booking" cargo will not act ...

Coal tar or asphalt-based coating.

A rain gauge capable of measuring very small amounts of precipitation. Also called micropluviometer, trace recorder.

Defense Logistics Agency

A sliding type of bearing having either rotating or oscillatory motion and in conjunction with which a journal operates. In a full or sleeve type bearing, the bearing surface is 360 degrees in extent. In a partial bearing, the bearing surface is less than ...

Cargo more than eight feet high which thus cannot fit into a standard container.

A solar thermal collector that has an absorber that does not have a glazed covering. Solar swimming pool heater systems usually use unglazed collectors because they circulate relatively large volumes of water through the collector and capture nearly 80 pe ...

A decrease in the central pressure of a pressure system. Usually applied to a low rather than to a high.

A power line for supplying electricity within a specified area.

A device that converts heat or sunlight directly to electricity, invented by Standford Ovshinsky, that has a unique glass composition that changes from an electrically non-conducting state to a semiconducting state.

In austenitic stainless steels the precipitation of chromium carbides, usually at grain boundaries, on exposure to temperatures of about 550 to 850

Air in motion relative to the surface of the earth. Almost exclusively used to denote the horizontal component.

An imprecise term used to denote a treatment given cold-worked material to reduce its strength to a controlled level or to effect stress relief. To be meaningful, the type of material, the degree of cold work, and the time-temperature schedule must be sta ...

A movement of electrons in an external circuit connecting an anode and cathode in a corrosion cell; the current flow is arbitrarily considered to be in an opposite direction to the electron flow.

A heat exchanger coil in which a fluid such as water is circulated and a fan blows air over the coil to distribute heat or cool air to the different rooms.

Is the suction pressure attained by an ejector or positive displacement vacuum pump at zero capacity with the suction absolutely blanked off.