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

Turbines or engines in which gas expands, does work, and undergoes a drop in temperature.

(FAR) The amount by which a company's assets outweigh its liabilities, expressed as a percentage..

A port designated by the government of a country for duty-free entry of any non-prohibited goods. Merchandise may be stored, displayed, used for manufacturing, etc., within the zone and re-exported without duties.

Pounds per square inch, absolute.

The angle between a line from a point on the earth's surface to the center of the solar disc, and a line extending horizontally from the point.

A European payment scheme in which a person person can use eurocheques and a guarantee card where.

A person appointed in a will to ensure that the wishes of the deceased are duly carried.

The borrowing of money by the master using his ship as security.

To bind together in order to increase tension or to prevent from blowing loose.

A group of whales.

A closed rail freight car.

A type of high intensity discharge light that has the most lumens per watt of any light source.

Practices and measures that increase energy efficiency.

The soft sandstone block sailors use to scrub the deck, so-called, because seamen were on their knees to use it.

(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.

A single masted cutter built expressly for the prevention of smuggling and the enforcement of customs regulations.

The monochromatic irradiance of a surface per unit bandwidth at a particular wavelength, usually expressed in Watts per square meter-nanometer bandwidth.

Long bars or bolts with a padlock on the end, on which iron shackles could slide, which were used on board ship to confine the legs of prisoners.

The passing of several turns of line across the jaw of a hook to prevent something on the hook, such as an eye or a line, from jumping clear.