The closeness of agreement among a number of consecutive output values measuring the same input value under the same operating conditions, approaching from the same direction. Usually measured as nonrepeatability but expressed as repeatability, a percenta ...

A window located high in a wall near the eaves that allows daylight into a building interior, and may be used for ventilation and solar heat gain.

A device used to compress air for mechanical or electrical power production, and in air conditioners, heat pumps, and refrigerators to pressurize the refrigerant and enabling it to flow through the system.

The stress required to produce fracture in the plane of cross section, the conditions of loading being such that the directions of force and of resistance are parallel and opposite although their paths are offset a specified minimum amount. The maximum lo ...

Fellow of The Nautical Institute

At or towards the stern or rear of a ship.

To retire from a life at sea and settle ashore.

(EMA) A moving average that gives extra weight to more recent price.

(ISG)Allows regulatory staffs of the US securities exchanges and the NASD to co-ordinate industry-wide.

The threshold value of the corrosion potential that has to be reached to enter a protective potential range. The term used in cathodic protection to refer to the minimum potential required to supress corrosion.

Transistor-Transistor Logic.

The measure of the instantaneous energy efficiency of room air conditioners; the cooling capacity in Btu/hr divided by the watts of power consumed at a specific outdoor temperature (usually 95 degrees Fahrenheit).

A shortening of the term, "Roll On/Roll Off." A method of ocean cargo service using a vessel with ramps which allows wheeled vehicles to be loaded and discharged without cranes.

Ice crystal deposits formed by sublimation (conversion of water vapor directly to ice) when temperature and dew point are below freezing.

Combination

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Determined by weighing a special type of wooden stick that has been exposed in the woods, its weight being proportional to its contained water.

An aneroid barograph designed to record atmospheric pressure variations of very small magnitude.

Pertains to the machining characteristics of an alloy to which one or more ingredients have been introduced to give small broken chips, lower power consumption, better surface finish, and longer tool life; among such additions are sulfur or lead to steel, ...

Same as intergranular corrosion. See also interdendritic corrosion.