A drag-type wind machine that can react to wind from any direction.

Embrittlement resulting from bombardment with neutrons, usually encountered in metals that have been exposed to a neutron flux in the core of a reactor. In steels, neutron embrittlement is evidenced by a rise in the ductile-to-brittle transition temperatu ...

(1) A type of corrosion attack (deterioration) uniformly distributed over metal surface. (2) Corrosion that proceeds at approximately the same rate over a metal surface. Also called general corrosion.

Indirect heat exchanger designed to transfer heat from combustion gas to the air stream added to the combustion zone.

Wind that is deflected from it's normal course by the sails

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(AITC)An association formed in 1932 to represent the interests of investment trust companies. Its main.

A building energy auditing technique used to determine and/or locate air leaks in a building shell or envelope.

The framework of timber, etc., on which a vessel is built, from which she is launched into the water.

The ability of a boat to keep from being moved sideways by the wind. Keels, daggerboards, centerboards, and leeboards are all used to improve a boat's lateral resistance.

After mast on a schooner or sailing ship carrying a spanker; usually the fourth mast of a five or six masted schooner.

Maritime Defense Zones

Numerous, very fine cracks in a coating or at the surface of a metal part. Checks may appear during processing or during service and are most often associated with thermal treatment or thermal cycling. Also called check marks. checking, or heat checks.

Member of a crew who works all day but does not keep the normal watches.

A photometer that measures the received intensity of a distance tight source.

A type of (geothermal) heat pump that uses well (ground) or surface water as a heat source. Water has a more stable seasonal temperature than air thus making for a more efficient heat source.

Is one which 1) handles a small constant flow of liquid with the gas; 2) utilizes evaporative (injection) cooling; or 3) circulates a liquid for sealing and/or cooling. The last may or may not be evaporative cooling.

Noise of less than one second's duration which occurs as an isolated event, or as one of a series of events with a repeat it ion rate of less than 15 times per second .

A device for converting a solid fuel to a gaseous fuel.

The rate of heat production by a steady current in any part of an electrical circuit that is proportional to the resistance and to the square of the current, or, the internal energy of an ideal gas depends only on its temperature.