The unit of speed in the nautical system; one nautical mile per hour. It is equal to 1.1508 statute miles per hour or 0.5144 meters per second.

Bankers Automated Clearing Services BACS is an APACS clearing company which provides an automated clearing service for payments.

All (not just 98%) particles larger than the stated micron size have been removed from the fluid being filtered.

See captive balloon, ceiling balloon, constant-level balloon, free balloon, hurricane beacon, kytoon, Moby Dick balloon, pilot balloon, radiosonde balloon, rockoon, skyhook balloon, transosonde.

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

The bearing of a celestial body from an observer's position.

Belgian ShipMaster's Association Professional Association for shipmasters legally recognized by decision of the Belgian Council of State of 29th November 1977. Main international objective: safety of shipping & promotion of the profession. Practically BES ...

To push a sail out so that the wind fills the opposite side, thus slowing the boat down.

The turning of the blade of an oar from the vertical to the horizontal while it is being taken aback for the next stroke. This reduces the windage on the blade thus reducing the effort expended.

The difference between the price of a futures contract and the spot or cash price. The item being.

A thermometer. the sensitive element of which consists of two metal strips which have different coefficients of expansion and are brazed together. The distortions of the system in response to temperature variations are used as a measure of temperature. It ...

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

Numerous shipments from different shippers to one consignee that are consolidated and treated as a single consignment.

An electrical device that adjusts the leading current of an applied alternating current to balance the lag of the circuit to provide a high power factor.

Operating Differential Subsidy Agreement

A method of growing large size, high quality semiconductor crystal by slowly lifting a seed crystal from a molten bath of the material under careful cooling conditions.

Centistokes centi Stokes (1 cSt = 1 mm2/s)

Water

A string of vessels which makes a particular voyage and serves a particular market.

Embrittlement under creep conditions of, for example, aluminum alloys and steels that results in abnormally low rupture ductility. In aluminum alloys, iron in amounts above the solubility limit is known to cause such embrittlement; in steels, the phenomen ...