A charge for services performed in connection with floating elevators.- Charges assessed for the handling of grain through grain elevators.

A mainly flat surface for transmitting radiant energy.

A solar energy conversion device that has a bowl shaped dish covered with a highly reflective surface that tracks the sun and concentrates sunlight on a fixed absorber, thereby achieving high temperatures, for process heating or to operate a heat (Stirlin ...

Lift anchor off the bottom.

The unit price of a good or service estimated from some base year in order to provide a consistent means of comparison.

Individual rooms or zones in a building where temperature is controlled separately from other rooms or zones.

A valve used to mix heated water with cold in a heating system to provide a desired water temperature for end use.

Upward displacing swells.

In the US, a federal tax levied on gifted property, money or securities. The tax is payable by the.

A crack or hole that accidentally admits a gas or lets it escape.

A sailboat with two masts. Generally, the shorter mizzen mast is aft of the main mast, but forward of the rudder post, while a similar vessel, the yawl, has the mizzen mast aft of the rudder post. The mizzen mast of a ketch is larger than that of a yawl.

The range of operating conditions of a device within which operating influences are negligible. The range is usually narrow. Reference operating conditions are the conditions under which reference performance is stated and the base from which the values o ...

To temporarily sew the ends of two ropes together for rendering through a block. Also to grip together parts of a fall to prevent running out. To marry strands to prepare for splicing.

A graph or chart that shows constant corrosion behavior with changing solution (environment) composition and temperature.

A unit of 1,000 bars of pressure.

A loan which the lender can recall at any time. There is no specific maturity.

An assurance policy usually taken out on two lives, typically husband and wife. Under this type of.

A shore that wind blows onto; it is best to stay well off a lee shore in a storm

A double block where the two sheaves lie in a plane one below the other, rather than alongside each other.

A document, which legally transfers ownership of property from one party to another, most commonly.