A company which is owed money by trade debtors faces the risk of slow payment or default on those.

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An absolute temperature scale with the ice point of pure water defined as 273.16 K. The size of the degree is the same as on the Celsius scale, and the zero point is absolute zero.

(1) To warp is to move a vessel by lines - move a boat by hauling on lines attached to docks or anchors. (2) The longitudinal threads in canvas and other textiles. (3) Hawser used when warping. (4) The line by which a boat rides to a sea anchor. (5) Moori ...

A wood or fiber cover placed around such containers as cans and bottles.

An automatic pressure relieving device actuated by the static pressure upstream of the device, which opens in proportion to the increase in pressure over the opening pressure.

A positive number that characterizes the combining power of an element for other elements, as measured by the number of bonds to other atoms that one atom of the given element forms upon chemical combination: hydrogen is assigned valence 1, and the valenc ...

An object designed to increase the radio reflectivity of a boat so that it is more visible on radar. Many small boats are made with fiberglass and other materials that do not reflect radar very well on their own.

Commission earned by a broker on both the sale and purchase.

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Abbreviation for precipitation-evaporation quotient.

is the ratio of the actual velocity at a given point to the velocity of sound in the same gas at the conditions existing at this point. These are known as local conditions.

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Wind with a speed between 28 and 55 knots (32 and 63 mph); Beaufort scale numbers 7 through 10.

A graphical plot or representation the current and voltage output of a solar photovoltaic cell or module as a load on the device is increased from short circuit (no load) condition to the open circuit condition; used to characterize cell/module performanc ...

Measuring point for compressor acceptance test. Pressure at the compressor outlet flange.

A thin sheet of semiconductor (photovoltaic material) made by cutting it from a single crystal or ingot.

The value of stress intensity at which crack propagation becomes rapid in sections thinner than those in which plane-strain conditions prevail.

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Admiralty constant – A coefficient used in the preliminary estimations of the power required in a new design to attain the desired speed. It is presented by the formula: where: D = displacement in tons, V = speed in knots, P = shaft power in kW. Values ...