A heat absorbing reaction or a reaction that requires heat.

To remove from a ship. To remove an item from its place.

A provider of venture capital, usually used in relation to backers of theatrical.

Personal Flotation Device

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

A holding pond for livestock manure that is designed to anaerobically stabilize manure, and may be designed to capture biogas, with the use of an impermeable, floating cover.

To heat a gaseous mixture to the temperature at which combustion takes place.

An instrument which determines the black-body temperature of a substance by measuring its thermal radiation.

(EBIT)Earnings before interest and tax. Calculated by taking the pre-tax profit of a company and adding.

The height of the cloud base above the local terrain.

Land Earth Station Operator

Defense Logistics Agency

The eutectic of the iron-carbon system, the constituents of which are austenite and cementite. The austenite decomposes into ferrite and cementite on cooling below the temperature at which transformation of austenite to ferrite or ferrite plus cementite i ...

Water Quality Insurance Syndicate

A sprocket wheel on the windlass for taking links of the chain cable.

See chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition and sputtering.

The decrease of an atmospheric variable with height, the variable being temperature, unless otherwise specified.

A instrument designed to study small fluctuations of some quantity. The microbarograph is an example of a recording pressure variometer.

Vessel of Opportunity Skimming System

(See MALL.)