An instrument used to measure changes in the level of the water in an evaporation pan. The gauge is normally placed in a Stillwell and adjusted so that the point of the hook just breaks the water surface. The change in water level is read on the attached ...

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A type of power generating facility that pumps water to a storage reservoir during off-peak periods, and uses the stored water (by allowing it to fall through a hydro turbine) to generate power during peak periods. The pumping energy is typically supplied ...

The outside plating of a vessel.

Sailor's term for soot or ashes which sometimes fell into food while it was being cooked.

The energy liberated in a chemical reaction, as in the combustion of fuels.

A line or wire from the mast to the bow or stern of a ship, for support of the mast; rigging used to support the mast from forward or aft.

Term used in the days of sail to indicate the starboard of the two anchors carried at the bow of a ship. The anchor on the port side was known as the small bower (although they were the same size).

Insurance covering the structure or contents of a house. This type of insurance now tends to.

A course marked by buoys or ranges measuring one nautical mile. Measured miles are used to calibrate logs.

Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985

A region of electrical contact between two different materials.

Downward scattered and reflected solar radiation, coming from the whole hemisphere with the exception of the solid angle of the sun's disc on a surface perpendicular to the axis of this cone.

check chamber-A chamber use to check the sensing elements of radiosonde equipment.

A measure of the intrinsic luminous intensity emitted by a source in a given direction. Luminance is a measure only of light. The comparable term for electromagnetic radiation in general is radiance.

General term for any device that measures precipitation: principally a rain gauge or snow gauge.

(1) Generic name for a large sea-going vessel. (2) To take an object aboard, such as cargo, or water. (3) To put items such as oars on the boat when not in use.

A City professional whose job is to decide how fund money is invested.

Brittle failure by cracking under the combined action of tensile stress and corrosion in the presence of water and hydrogen sulfide. See also environmental cracking.

(1) State of anodically passivated metal characterized by a considerable increase of the corrosion current, in the; absence of pitting, when the potential is increased. (2) The noble region of potential where an electrode exhibits at higher than passive c ...