In physics, any process in which the flux density (or power, amplitude, intensity, illuminance, etc.) of a "parallel beam" of energy decreases with increasing distance from the source. Attenuation is always due to the action of the transmitting medium its ...

See radiosonde commutator.

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

The unit of magnetic field intensity equal to 1 dyne per unit pole.

Where a company provides an employee with a company motor car which is used privately in addition to.

A rain gauge or array of rain gauges designed to measure the inclination and direction of falling rain.

See feed.

The order in which compressors are brought online.

Generally, an instrument designed to measure or estimate the blueness of the sky. See Linke-scale.

The total annual return on an investment which includes dividend payments and capital.

The atmospheric pressure at mean sea level either directly measured by stations at sea level or empirically determined from the station pressure and temperature by stations not at sea level. Used as a common reference for analyses of surface pressure patt ...

Lowest temperature at which a product gives off an inflammable gas when mixed with air.

A device used by energy auditors to pressurize a building to locate places of air leakage and energy loss.

The point at which sellers have fulfilled their obligations so the goods in a legal sense could be said to have been delivered to the buyer. They are shorthand expressions that set out the rights and obligations of each party when it comes to transporting ...

As defined in the Energy Security Act (P.L. 96-294; 1980) as "any organic matter, including sewage, sewage sludge, and industrial or commercial waste, and mixtures of such matter and inorganic refuse from any publicly or privately operated municipal waste ...

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A stress that causes an elastic body to deform (shorten) in the direction of the applied load. Contrast with tensile stress.

Any sudden and heavy rain, almost always of the shower type.

The range of operating conditions within which a device is designed to operate and for which operating influences are stated. See operating conditions, reference operating conditions.

A method of docking with a boat's stern to the dock.