Wide, a wide boat is a beamy boat

Limit Service.

A plan which offers elderly people the opportunity of raising cash on their property. A.

The warehouse or public stores to which samples of imported goods are taken to be inspected, analyzed, weighed, etc. by examiners or appraisers.

A type of heating system where water is heated in a boiler and either moves by natural convection or is pumped to heat exchangers or radiators in rooms; radiant floor systems have a grid of tubing laid out in the floor for distributing heat. The temperatu ...

The breaking-up of paint into fine particles or droplets by a paint gun using compressed air.

International Association of Independent Tanker Owners

Differences between the compass reading and an actual magnetic direction caused by magnetic forces in the vicinity of the compass, which are usually the result of masses of metal, speaker magnets, etc. (2) Vessel departure from specified voyage course.

The settings on a pressure switch used to either load or unload the air compressor on a constant speed application, or start or stop the compressor on a start/stop application. The cut out pressure is also known as the maximum pressure, or the point at wh ...

Government officials responsible for regulating goods, services and supplies into a country.

This is another name for an induction motor. The motors consist of a rotor inside a stator. The rotor has laminated, thin flat steel discs, stacked with channels along the length. If the casting composed of bars and attached end rings were viewed without ...

To lash up.

To let go.

To send electricity through a electricity transmission and distribution network; a conductor or power line that is carrying current.

A class of rain gauge in which the level of the collected rain water is measured by the position of a float resting on the surface of the water.

The outer, solid portion of the earth: the crust of the earth.

A clay atmometer consisting of a hollow ceramic sphere through which evaporation occurs. Evaporation is measured by the loss of water from the reservoir which feeds the sphere.

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

A federal government agency created in 1977, that is entrusted to contribute to the welfare of the United States by providing technical information, and a scientific and educational foundation for technology, policy and institutional leadership to achieve ...

The process of forcing, either manually or automatically, a wind turbine's blades out of the direction of the wind in order to stop the blades from turning.