A requirement of the 1986 Financial Services Act and in turn the Financial Services Authority that a.

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.

A gaseous environment containing hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide in hydrocarbon reservoirs. Prolonged exposure to sour gas can lead to hydrogen damage, sulfide-stress cracking, and/or stress-corrosion cracking in ferrous alloys.

The process of changing the structure of the electric power industry from one of guaranteed monopoly over service territories, as established by the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, to one of open competition between power suppliers for custome ...

A financial institution which invests large amounts of money in the stock, bond and other financial.

See electrical resistivity.

The physical exposure of an instrument. The effect of immediate environment upon the representativeness of the measurements obtained by meteorological instruments is considerable and not always correctable. The purpose of the instrument shelter is to prov ...

The wooden bit in the stem of a whaling boat around which the harpoon line was controlled.

Water heated for residential washing, bathing, etc.

Concentration of a solution expressed in moles of solute divided by 1000 g of solvent.

Lowest altitude in the atmosphere over a given location at which the air temperature is 0

The maximum speed a hull can achieve without planing - the fastest a keelboat will go, usually dependent on length of the hull at the waterline

To influence the demand on a power source.

The sum of sensible heat and latent heat in a substance above a base temperature, typically 32 degrees Fahrenheit.

A systematic summary of the terms (inflow, outflow, and storage) of the storage equation as applied to the computation of soil-moisture changes, ground-water changes, etc. An evaluation of the hydrologic balance of an area. Also called basin accounting, w ...

A method of winds aloft observation in which the elevation and azimuth angles of a theodolite are read while visually tracking a pilot balloon. Balloon height data is estimated from assumed balloon ascension rates.

Successive shipments are permitted under letters of credit. Usually they must take place within a given period of time.

Kept in a neat seaman-like manner.

A display of national colors at all mastheads and the array of signal flags from bow to stern over the masthead (for special occasions and holidays).