Some unit trusts offer a floor price and guarantee their bid price will not be allowed to fall.

A warm, dry wind on the lee side of a mountain range, the warmth and dryness due to adiabatic compression upon descent.

Of equal or constant pressure, with respect to either space or time.

An instrument for measuring the intensity of light or the relative intensity of a pair of lights. Also called an illuminometer. If the instrument is designed to measure the intensity of light as a function of wavelength, it is called a spectrophotometer. ...

Old term for waking a sailor asleep on watch by throwing a bucket of cold water over him.

A smaller version of standard fluorescent lamps which can directly replace standard incandescent lights. These lights consist of a gas filled tube, and a magnetic or electronic ballast.

Methods used by companies to try to ensure their customers settle their accounts within the agreed.

Stocks whose dividend payouts are high as a proportion of their share price. This could either be.

A plastic foam insulation product, pressed or extruded into board-like forms, used as sheathing and insulation for interior basement or crawl space walls or beneath a basement slab; can also be used for exterior applications inside or outside foundations, ...

An electric generator consists of an armature and a field structure. The armature carries the wire loop, coil, or other windings in which the voltage is induced, whereas the field structure produces the magnetic field. In small generators, the armature is ...

(EIRIS) The Ethical Investment Research Service (EIRIS) which maintains a database which you can use to.

An electronic 'stock market' service owned by Reuters which enables members to display bid and offer.

Any conventional barometer fitted with an extended scale so that atmospheric pressure measurements may be made at both high and low altitudes.

Same as hydrogen embrittlement.

Having an affinity for water. Contrast with hydrophobic.

In general. the severe wind of an intense tropical cyclone (hurricane or typhoon). The term has no further technical connotation, but, unfortunately, is easily conftlsed with the strictly defined hurricane-force wind,

The mark stencilled in and painted on a ship's side, designated by a circle and horizontal lines to mark the highest permissible load water lines under different conditions.

The process of burning; the oxidation of a material by applying heat, which unites oxygen with a material or fuel.

Transportation from one city to another as differentiated from local switching service.

The charge you pay if you borrow money, and the income you receive if you lend it or invest it in.