A person or firm who transacts all business in a port on behalf of shipowners or charterers. Also called shipping agent; agent.

The direct, diffuse, and reflected solar radiation that strikes a surface.

In the US, a short term municipal or state note which is repaid from the proceeds of a forthcoming.

The books in which the transactions of a business are.

A bonus declared by life companies when maturity of a with profits policy or death of the assured.

(ICS)A compensation scheme for investors with operating rules set by the Financial Services Authority.

A flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.

When reciprocating compressors run, the moving parts such as pistons, rods, crossheads, connecting rods are repeatedly accelerated and retarded. These velocity changes set up pulsating inertia forces. The forces are of the first and second order. The firs ...

Part of a ship/s side projecting upwards along the line of the weather deck or uppermost deck.

The angle that a solar collector is positioned from horizontal.

Power plants, whose output depends on a factor(s) that cannot be controlled by the power generator because they utilize intermittent resources such as solar energy or the wind.

Latin for 'let the buyer beware'. This implies a buyer must ensure that goods about to be.

The penalty a seller must pay if the construction project does not meet contractual standards or deadlines.

A mutual organisation whose funds, after the deduction of running costs, are owned by its.

See foehn.

A liquid piston compressor is a rotary compressor in which a vaned rotor revolves in an elliptical casing, with the rotor spaces sealed by a ring of liquid rotating with it inside the casing.

A type of journal bearing in centrifugal air compressors.

A passage for surplus water to flow over or around a dam.

Is the temperature at which water vapor begins to condense at atmospheric pressure. Is the same as dew point, but is related to atmospheric air only.

A draft payable on demand upon presentation.