A ratio used to work out how many days on average it takes a company to get paid for what it.

Lloyds Machinery Certificate

See S&W

A rainbow of angular radius of about 50

A unit or measure of solar radiation; 1 calorie per square meter or 3.69 Btu per square foot.

see 'balance of.

Money owed by an individual or company to another individual or.

Opposite of absorption or adsorption. In filtration, it relates to the downstream release of particles previously retained by the filter.

Futures contracts where the underlying instruments are financial such as shares, interest rates,.

National Centers for Environmental Prediction. Central computer and communications facility of the National Weather Service; located in Washington, DC.

(1) Term describing the status of seamen, corresponding to rank in the case of officers. (2) A method of measuring a yacht's expected performance relative to another yacht while racing. Over the years many formulas have been experimented with, in order to ...

Nautical equivalent of ceiling

Loadline (International Convention On Load Lines)

A solar energy concentrating technology that uses a linear receiver that tracks the focal area of a reflector or array of reflectors.

The line to which a vessel is submerged with a full cargo on board.

A measure of the intensity of gusts given by the ratio of the total range of wind speed between gusts and the intermediate periods of lighter wind to the mean wind speed, averaged over both gusts and lulls.

In the US, a board of Directors comprised of seven members which directs the federal banking system,.

In the US, this refers to a bond that is secured by a blanket mortgage on the issuing company's.

The official who is in charge of a harbor, enforcing all its applicable regulations.

In general terms, the increase in value of an asset. As far as shares are concerned,.