A power plant that uses two thermodynamic cycles to achieve higher overall system efficiency; e.g.: the heat from a gas-fired combustion turbine is used to generate steam for heating or to operate a steam turbine to generate additional electricity.

A broker who not only deals in stocks and shares on behalf of his client, but who also makes the.

To transfer goods from one transportation line to another, or from one ship to another.

The most common of the principal rainbow phenomena, which appears as an arc of about 42

The lower yard on a mizzen mast of a square-rigged ship.

This type of heat pump is known as an air-to air system.

One millionth of a meter (10-6 m).

Slang term for a disreputable brokerage.

A 1792 trade agreement banding the original 24 brokers in New York together into an investment.

A certificate authenticated by a recognized port authority, certifying that a ship comes from a place where there is no contagious disease, and that none of her crew was infected with such a disease.

The general preparation of a vessel to make ready for the sea in all respects.

Development of the lugsail rig where the sail is cut with a very short luff and lon leech.

The alternate rise and fall of the bow of a vessel proceeding through waves.

A fender made of granulated cork and covered with woven tarred stuff.

International Securities Identification Number International code for a listed.

Stress-corrosion cracking in which the cracking occurs along grain boundaries.

A unit of luminance or brightness equal to 1/d candles per foot'.

A mercury barometer arranged so that the position of the upper or lower meniscus may be measured photographically. In one design the image of the meniscus is formed on a rotating drum covered with sensitized paper so that a continuous record of pressure a ...

Pertaining to rain, or more broadly, to precipitation.

A thermometer based upon the principle that the velocity of a sound wave is a function of the temperature of the medium through which it passes. Sonic thermometers possess very short time-constants and eliminate radiation error.