World Customs Organization (Ex Customs Cooperation Council)

A component on a compressed air line designed to increase in magnitude the flow by releasing small amounts of compressed air at high velocity through an internal, ring shaped nozzle. This column of air released through the front creates a vacuum behind, t ...

An adsorption type desiccant.

United States Agency for International Development

Also known as a preferred channel buoy. A red and green horizontally striped buoy used in the United States to mark the separation of a channel into two channels. The preferred channel is indicated by the color of the uppermost stripe. Red on top indicate ...

Boards fixed vertically to a boat to prevent leeway

A thermometer using transducing elements which deform with temperature. Examples are the bimetallic thermometer and the Bourdon tube type of thennometer.

A psychrometer in which the ventilation is provided by a suction fan.

The power conduit of an electric power plant; the starting point of the electric transmission system.

The maximum stress (tensile. compressive, or shear) a material can sustain without fracture, determined by dividing maximum load by the original cross-sectional area of the specimen. Also called nominal strength or maximum strength.

A type of disk hardness-gauge, especially useful in relatively soft snow. See disk hardness gauge.

An inert gas. An element found in the atmosphere to the extent of only 0.000114 percent by volume. Its molecular weight is 83.7.

Gearless

All quoted companies have a legal obligation to send shareholders annual results within six.

Yes. "Aye aye sir" is a reply on board ship on receipt of an order.

Any process whereby a base metal or alloy is either (1) coated with another metal or alloy and heated to a sufficient temperature in a suitable environment or (2) exposed to a gaseous or liquid medium containing the other metal or alloy, thus causing diff ...

European Maritime Pilots Association

A thermometer whose sensitive element has been made to resemble a black body by covering it with lamp black. The thermometer is placed in an evacuated transparent chamber which is maintained at a constant temperature. The instrument responds to insolation ...

The usually unfinished space above a ceiling and below a roof.

A system that records the consumption of electricity, gas, water, etc, and sends the data to a central data accumulation device.