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 ...

If a company's earnings figures are distorted either positively or negatively by exceptional one-off.

A ladder of rope with rungs, used over the side.

Salt Water Arrival Draft

International Hydrographic Organization

An elastomeric bellow with specially designed metal end closures used in place of pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders. A device which induces action or motion with compressed air being the medium through which the power is transmitted.

Tropical Deadweight

Gross National Product: GDP plus the net income accruing from foreign sources.

In reference to solar energy systems, the angle at which direct sunlight strikes a surface; the angle between the direction of the sun and the perpindicular to the surface. Sunlight with an incident angle of 90 degrees tends to be absorbed, while lower an ...

Lower explosive limit (lower flammable limit)

Evidence of plastic deformation in structural materials. Also called plastic flow or creep. See also flow.

A quantity of (solid) biomass fuel equal to 2,400 pounds bone dry.

A term used by the London Stock Exchange to denote that certain conditions were agreed between the.

The frequency of a carrier wave.

Down or downwards; as in "Lay alow!"; opposite of Aloft.

A region of transition between semiconductor layers, such as a p/n junction, which goes from a region that has a high concentration of acceptors (p-type) to one that has a high concentration of donors (n-type).

An air pollution control device that removes organic contaminants by oxidizing them into carbon dioxide and water through a chemical reaction using a catalysis, which is a substance that increases (or decreases) the rate of a chemical reaction without bei ...

The part of the boat behind the beam.

A device for converting one form of energy or fuel into useful energy or work.

The condition of an electrode when the rate of anodic dissolution just balances the rate of cathodic plating.885