A type of structural, insulated product with foam insulation contained between two facings of drywall, or structural wood composition boards such as plywood, waferboard, and oriented strand board.

The legal issues related to protecting or ensuring access to sunlight to operate a solar energy system, or use solar energy for heating and cooling.

The use of solar thermal energy or solar electricity to power a cooling appliance. There are five basic types of solar cooling technologies: absorption cooling, which can use solar thermal energy to vaporize the refrigerant; desiccant cooling, which can u ...

Strips of material used to separate multiple panes of glass within the windows.

The rotating element of a machine and, in the case of a compressor, is composed of the impeller (impellers) and shaft, and may include shaft sleeves and a thrust balancing device.

An order to make haste.

The process of designing a solar system to meet a specified load given the solar resource and the nominal or rated energy output of the solar energy collection or conversion device.

The person or company who is usually the supplier or owner of commodities shipped. Also called Consignor.

A unit designed to separate condensate from the compressed air stream.

The refusal to pay or accept a Bill of Exchange.

Same as evaporative power.

The type of alternative current generated by alternating current generators, rotary inverters, and solid-state inverters.

In a radiosonde observation, a level (other than a standard level) for which values of pressure, temperature, and humidity are reported because temperature and/or humidity data at that level is sufficiently important or unusual to warrant the attention of ...

(1) Said of seas that break over a vessel or over a sea wall. (2) A whale breaches when it leaps out of the water.

An old term for getting married.

Any Boat Designed with a pointed bow and stern

Wooden shoulders attached below the masthead to either side of a wooden mast which originally supported the trestle trees.

The short aftermost raised deck of a vessel.

(CQS) A US system which collects and disseminates, electronically, current bid and asked quotations along.

A Transferable Letter of Credit allows the beneficiary to pass on the benfit of a Letter of Credit to one or more third parties. Normally used by companies that source rather than produce goods.