A box-like structure designed to protect certain meteorological instruments from exposure to direct sunlight, precipitation, and condensation, while at the same time providing adequate ventilation. Instrument shelters are painted white, have louvered side ...

When freight appears to be free of damage so far as a general survey can determine.

A device for converting the flow of a fluid (air, steam, water, or hot gases) into mechanical motion.

A gap unintentionally left uncovered while painting or varnishing.

An institution which accepts funds from the public and reinvests in bank deposits, bonds and stocks.

A quantitative analysis for evaluating structural behavior in terms of applied stress, crack length, and specimen or machine component geometry. See also linear elastic fracture mechanics.

A measure of distance approximately 3 nautical miles. One-twentieth of a degree of latitude.

A ratio of the work or useful energy output of a system versus the amount of work or energy inputted into the system as determined by using the same energy equivalents for energy in and out. Is used as a measure of the steady state performance or energy e ...

The number of futures or options contracts required to hedge/counteract the exposure in the.

Parasitic resistance to current flow in a cell due to mechanisms such as resistance from the bulk of the semiconductor material, metallic contacts, and interconnections.

See: 'contract.

The Customs tariff used by most countries worldwide. It was formerly known as the Brussels Tariff Nomenclature and is the basis of the commodity coding system known as the Harmonized System.

An architectural design invented by Buckminster Fuller with a regular polygonal structure based on radial symmetry.

(1) That section of pipeline extending from the ocean floor up the platform. Also, the vertical tube in a steam generator convection bank that circulates water and steam upward. (2) A reservoir of molten metal connected to a casting to provide additional ...

Also called postweld heat treatment cracking, stress-relief cracking occurs when susceptible alloys are suhjected to thermal stress relief after welding to reduce residual stresses and improve toughness. Stress-relief cracking occurs only in metals that c ...

An arbitrary filter efficiency rating.

To leak; take in water.

The stress condition in linear elastic fracture mechanics in which there is zero strain in a direction normal to both the axis of applied tensile stress and the direction of crack growth (that is, parallel to the crack front); most nearly achieved in load ...

Under letters of credit, one or more shipments are allowed by the phrase "partial shipments permitted."

National Shipbuilding Initiative.