To reach the end; to bring one object hard up against another, as when two blocks in a block and tackle arrangement are brought together.

Cargo loaded into a container by the shipper under shipper's supervision. When the cargo is exported, it is unloaded at the foreign pier destination.

A fund which aims to pay a high dividend to its shareholders by investing in bonds or other.

(1) An arbitrarily defined temperature that lies within the temperature range in which metal fracture characteristics (as usually determined by tests of notched specimens) change rapidly, such as from primarily fibrous (shear) to primarily crystalline (cl ...

A type of recording siphon barometer. The mechanically magnified motion of a float resting on the lower mercury surface is used to record atmospheric pressure on a rotating drum.

Thermometer for measuring the temperature in the soil at different depths.

A unit of work done by the force of one dyne acting through a distance of one centimeter.

Money paid by shipper to Master of ship for diligence in care of cargo. Not now paid to Master, but added to freight. Amount was usually about 1% of freight.

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Plastic deformation by the irreversible shear displacement (translation) of one part of a crystal relative to another in a definite crystallographic direction and usually on a specific crystallographic plane. Sometimes called glide.

The general term for dry atmospheric suspensoids, including dust, haze, smoke. and sand. Compare to hydrometeor.

The record or trace made by a microbarograph.

The inner coil in a heat pump that, during the cooling mode, absorbs heat from the inside air and boils the liquid refrigerant to a vapor, which cools the house.

The making of a gift by will. See.

Ferrire that is formed directly from the decomposition of hypoeutectoid austenite during cooling, without the simultaneous formation of cementite. Also called proeutectoid ferrite.

Resin formed by condensation of polybasic and monobasic acids with polyhydric alcohols.

Molten slag; in the pulp and paper industry, the cooking chemicals tapped from the recovery boiler as molten material and dissolved in the smelt tank as green liquor.

variable audio-modulated radiosonde developed at the Bureau of Standards and used by the United States weather services.

An optical device for concentrating light that is made of concentric rings that are faced at different angles so that light falling on any ring is focused to the same point.

Wind with a speed between 34 and 40 knots (39 and 46 mph); Beaufort scale number 8.