Particles of foreign material in a metallic matrix. The particles are usually compounds (such as oxides, sulfides, or silicates), but may be of any substance that is foreign to (and essentially insoluble in) the matrix.

A boat owner's private pennant.

A building design that uses structural elements of a building to heat and cool a building, without the use of mechanical equipment, which requires careful consideration of the local climate and solar energy resource, building orientation, and landscape fe ...

Alternating current is carried by conductors and a ground to residential, commercial, or industrial consumers. The waveform of the phase power appears as a single continuous sine wave at the system frequency whose amplitude is the rated voltage of the pow ...

A liquid-in-glass or liquid-in-metal thermometer using mercury as the liquid.

Said to weigh.

A mortgage which guarantees the interest rate charged will not rise above a certain level. But it.

An economic situation in which there is a general fall in the level of.

IMO performance standard for ECDIS

In railcar or container shipments, the weight of the empty railcar or empty container.

A small free-moving submersible designed for exploring the ocean depths.

A small tapering flag, which can be used for identification or communication.

The absolute centimeter-gram-second unit of force; that force that will impart to a free mass of one gram an acceleration of one centimeter per second per second.

A list of navigational lights arranged in geographical order, giving the position and characteristics.

A lit navigational aid such as a lighthouse that can be used at night or in poor visibility.

A vessel designed for the transport of people or goods from one place to another on a regular schedule.

Month

The standard method for calculating residential cooling loads developed by the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) and the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA) based largely on the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and A ...

Said of anchor when it is under ship's forefoot, and cable is nearly up and down.

The water volume within a specified portion of a stream channel.