The government department responsible to the Treasury for the collection of direct taxes which.

A set of weekly colored rainbow arcs sometimes discernable inside a primary rainbow.

Committee on Measurement Accountability

The wheel of the block over which the fall of the block is rove.

Is one that does not enter into known chemical combination, either with itself or another element. There are four known gases of this type: helium; neon; argon and krypton. or a gas that does not supply any of the needs of combustion.

A direct-vision nephoscope constructed in the following manner: A grid-work of bars is mounted horizontally on the end of a vertical column and made free to rotate about the vertical axis. The observer rotates the grid and adjusts his or her position unti ...

Laid-Up

Chemical reactions, typically associated with combustion processes; the balancing of chemical reactions by providing the exact proportions of reactant compounds to ensure a complete reaction; all the reactants are used up to produce a single set of produc ...

Is that pressure of either motive fluid or discharge at which an ejector returns to stable operation following a period of unstable operation due to having previously reached the breaking pressure. There are two recovery pressures, one for motive fluid an ...

The ratio of clearance volume to the volume swept by the compressing element.

The permanent (inelastic) distortion of metals under applied stresses that strain the material beyond its elastic limit.

The component of either a liquid or solid solution that is present to a lesser or minor extent: the component that is dissolved in thesolution.

International Ship Supplies Association

High Pressure Turbine

Point of Service Medical Plan.

Information systems

Safe Port

Said of a man who goes to sea as a rating compared with officers, and lives forward. Forward of a mast.

See embrittlement.

Rain gauge which registers precipitation that is too light to be registered by ordinary recording of the depth of water from precipitation. Same as ombrometer.