The interface between an eletrode or a suspended particle and an electrolyte created by charge-charge interaction (charge separation) leading to an alignment of oppositely charged ions at the surface of the electrode or particle. The simplest model is rep ...

Heavy roll to leeward with a beam wind.

A written receipt in full, in discharge from all claims.

A method of streamflow routing which assumes that storage is a linear function of the weighted flow in the reach and is adaptable to a simple mathematical solution.

A device, such as a steel plate, used to check, retard, or divert a flow of a material.

International Forest Product Transport Association

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International Labour Organization

The total number of shares a company is authorised to issue by reference to its memorandum and.

The quantity measured by a sound level meter in which the frequency response is weighted according to the A-weighting curve (see IEC publication 651).

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

A method causing a liquid or gas to condense on the surface only of an adsorbing material.

Away from the direction of the wind. Opposite of windward.

A term used on occasions in life assurance policy documents, which indicates that the assured has.

A direct-vision nephoscope which is constructed in the following manner: a comb consisting of a crosspiece containing equispaced vertical rods is attached to one end of a column eight to ten feet long and is supported on a mounting that is free to rotate ...

A place not suitable for anchoring.

(1) Water having salinity values ranging from approximately 0.5 to l7 parts per thousand. (2) Water having less salt than seawater, but undrinkable.

Panamax ships are all ships that comply with the size and draft limitations of the existing (old) locks; namely, length 294.13m by 32.31m in breadth by 12.04 fresh water draft.

World Customs Organization (Ex Customs Cooperation Council)

Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time. Network of automatic rain gauges that transmit via VHF radio link when precipitation occurs. Some sites are also equipped with other sensors such as temperature, wind, pressure, river stage or tide level. More info ...