A wide range of indices including shares, stocks and fixed interest securities published by the.

Revolutions per Minute

The ratio of the output of an instrument to the input value, i.e. a rain gauge with a sensitivity of 1 tip per 0.01"

Name given to the lowest deck in a ship.

Said to weigh.

The last buoy as a boat heads to sea.

A lamp where the light beam is focused 2 inches ahead of the lamp reducing the amount of light trapped in the fixture.

A device which automatically records the water equivalent of snow on a given surface as a function of time. A small sample of a radioactive salt is placed in the ground in a shielded collimator which directs a beam of radioactive particles upwards. A Geig ...

An instrument for measuring the extinction coefficient in water.

A professional person qualified to give advice to clients regarding investments such as life.

A pocket sized pager with datascreen which can display a variety of financial information including.

International Underwiting Association

Independent Tank, Common

A reversible propeller mounted in a tunnel running through the ship/s hull to give movement athwart-ships.

A hydrostatic principle that pressure supplied to an enclosed fluid is transmitted undiminished to every portion of the fluid and to the walls of the containing vessel.

An arbitrage transaction applied on a futures market where the cash or spot price of for example,.

The cost of trading in an asset or security which will vary according to the broker you use and.

A person or company owing money to another person or company. A company is therefore owed money by.

(1) Formation of a new, strain free grain structure from that existing in cold worked metal, usually accomplished by heating. (2) The change from one crystal structure to another, as occurs on heating or cooling through a critical temperature.

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