The minimum demand experienced by a power plant.

Grain

That time during which weather that prevents working shall not count as laytime

The total pressure measured from absolute zero ( i.e., from an absolute vacuum).

The value of a shipment agreed upon in order to secure a specific freight rate.

International Hydrographic Organization

Auxiliary/Generators Kilowatts (total)

The difference between net electrical system capability and system maximum load requirements (peak load); the margin of capability available to provide for scheduled maintenance, emergency outages, system operating requirements and unforeseen loads.

A reserve appliance; for example, a standby generator for a home or commercial building.

Primitive plants, usually aquatic, capable of synthesizing their own food by photosynthesis.

An instrument for determining the dust content of a sample of air. Also spelled conimeter.

Those parts of the ship's navigating bridge extending towards the ship's sides.

A type of radiant heating system where the radiator is located along an exterior wall where the wall meets the floor.

A term applied to a floating object that is moored or anchored so that it remains at one place. Budys are used for marking the places on the water where a ship is sunk, where reefs are below, where the edges of the channel are, or to provide means for moo ...

Intermediate Fuel Oil

A delta-neutral spread composed of more long options than short options on the same underlying.

An electromagnetic ballast that disconnects a lamp's electrode heating circuit once is has started; often called "low frequency electronic" ballasts.

A type of compression where no heat is transferred to or from the gas during the compression process.

1.Wolrd Maritime Organization2.World Meteorological Organisation

Special Drawing Rights