The air compressor continues to run, usually at full RPM, but no air is delivered because the inlet is either closed off or modified, not allowing inlet air to be trapped.

A halyard used to raise the spinnaker.

The smallest change in the environment that causes detectable change in the indication of an instrument. Compare to sensitivity.

The ability of a filter to remove specified test contaminants under specified test conditions from a specific test fluid, air, gas or liquid. Expressed as a percentage of the quantity of test contaminant introduced into the inlet of the filter test system

Any small collar made with spunyarn or light line to hold something in place.

Temperarure at which a liquid solidifies under any given set of conditions. It may or may not be the same as the melting point or the more rigidly defined true freezing point or (for water) ice point.

Precipitation composed of liquid water drops more than 0.5 mm in diameter, failing in relatively straight, but not necessarily vertical, paths. Compare to drizzle.

A method of depositing thin semiconductor films used to make certain types of solar photovoltaic devices. With this method, a substrate is exposed to one or more vaporized compounds, one or more of which contain desirable constituents. A chemical reaction ...

A market in which there are more sellers than buyers resulting in falling.

Brittie fracture of a normally ductile material in which the corrosive effect of the environment is a causative factor. Environmental cracking is a general term that includes corrosion fatigue, high-temperature hydrogen attack, hydrogen blistering, hydrog ...

A sailboat is always on one tack or the other; that is the sail is always on one side or the other.

Conversion

(See RNR)

Air that is returned from a heated or cooled space, reconditioned and/or cleaned, and returned to the space.

Deeper forward (front end deepest in water).

Time period from when a compressor loads until it unloads.

International Telecomunication Union

CG Digital Data Management System.

(FICA)In the US, the federal law which directs employers to withhold a proportion of employees' salaries.

Liner Shipping Agreements.