Is a standardized method to determine the carbon formation characteristics of compressor lubricants.

An illegal form of discounting or refunding that has the net effect of lowering the tariff price. See also Malpractice.

A vessel is in soundings when she is in sufficiently shallow water for soundings to be made and used as an aid in the vessel's navigation.

Period of time a system or appliance (or component of) is expected to function at its nominal or design capacity without major repair.

Force wind-Wind with a speed above 64 knots (73 mph); Beaufort scale numbers 12 through 17.

The quantity to be measured (or modulated, or detected, or operated upon) which is received by an instrument. Thus, for a thermometer. temperature is the input quantity.

A mercury barometer of the fixed cistern type in which a moveable scale terminating in an ivory point is used to compensate for the variations in the height of the mercury in the cistern

A type of hydropower turbine that contains a runner that has water passages through it formed by curved vanes or blades. As the water passes through the runner and over the curved surfaces, it causes rotation of the runner. The rotational motion is transm ...

When all money in a portfolio is invested in securities as opposed to retaining some cash, it is.

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

An evaporation pan in which the evaporation is measured from water in a pan floating in a larger body of water.

A geothermal energy resource that consists of high temperature rocks above 300 F (150 C) that may be fractured and have little or no water. To extract the heat, the rock must first be fractured, then water is injected into the rock and pumped out to extra ...

The use of spending and taxation by the government in order to achieve its economic objectives. Put.

The riding lights required to be carried by vessels at anchor.

Brittle fracture of a metal in which the fracture is between the grains, or crystals, that form the metal. Also called intercrystalline fracture. Contrast with transgranular fracture.

A line used for capsizing the sea anchor and hauling it in.

A hygrometer based upon the diffusion of water vapor through a porous membrane.

Instrument for measuring the mean intensity of glo global solar radiation (direct and diffuse) near the earth's surface in a specified time interval.

Abbreviation for radio frequency.

The part of a wind energy conversion device blade, or airfoil, that is the last to contact the wind.