A group of wind turbines interconnected to a common utility system through a system of transformers, distribution lines, and (usually) one substation. Operation, control, and maintenance functions are often centralized through a network of computerized mo ...

A term used to describe the hot gas pressure on the outlet side of the refrigeration compression.

Any device or instrument for measuring salinity, especially one based on electrical conductivity methods.

A solid wharf or structure built of stone along the edge of a harbor used for loading and offloading of cargo, and embarkation and disembarkation of passengers.

The measure of seasonal or annual efficiency of a heat pump operating in the heating mode. It takes into account the variations in temperature that can occur within a season and is the average number of Btu of heat delivered for every watt-hour of electri ...

The potential of an electrode measured with respect to a reference electrode or another electrode when no current flows to or from it.

When all the sails are shaking.

Rolling a vessel, that is slightly ice-bound, so as to break the surface ice around her. May sometimes be done when a vessel is lightly aground, but not ice-bound.

Human Reliability Analysis Used in safety studies.

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 ...

Search of a vessel, by Customs authorities, for unreported goods.

Receiver(s)

Defect in the action of an aneroid barometer resulting in a sluggish adjustment of the index toward the correct reading when the barometer is subjected to a large and rapid change in pressure.

CFM flowing through the compressor inlet filter or inlet valve under rated conditions

The increase in pressure in the discharge header that develops as a result of flow after the pressure relief device opens

A common type of liquid-inglass thermometer, used, in meteorology, in psychrometers and as a maximum thermometer.

The wind speed and direction at various levels in the atmosphere above the level reached by surface weather observations.

National Vocational Qualification.

A coating process, similar to gas carburizing and carbonitriding, whereby a reactant atmosphere gas is fed into a processing chamber where it decomposes at the surface of the workpiece, liberating one material for either absorption by, or accumulation on ...

See 'Government National Mortgage.