Portable Electronic Thermometer

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World Customs Organization (Ex Customs Cooperation Council)

Energy required to operate mechanical components of an energy system, or a source of energy or energy supply system to back-up another.

A thermodynamic cycle using constant pressure, heat addition and rejection, representing the idealized behavior of the working fluid in a gas turbine type heat engine.

Integrated Bridge System

The demand on, or the power output of, an electrical system or any of its parts over an interval of time, as determined by the total number of kilowatt-hours divided by the units of time in the interval.

An 'at best' order is an order given by a client to a broker where no particular instruction is.

The working portion of a cruise between ports. A long cruise may have many legs. The distance sailed on one tack. The course from one race mark to another.

In the US, a fund held by a section of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as deposit.

A combustible gas created by anaerobic decomposition of organic material, composed primarily of methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide.

See 'acid.

Old snow that has become granular and compacted as a result of melting and refreezing.

Dcomputer assisted design

Formation of a single water drop by the union of two or more colliding drops.

Bonds which offer high rates of interest but with correspondingly higher risk attached to the.

An interior wall made of water filled containers for absorbing and storing solar energy.

A term used by the London Stock Exchange to denote a trade generated by the system through automatic.

A chromate conversion coating produced on magnesium alloys in a boiling solution of sodium dichromate.

Two metals of different coefficients of expansion welded together so that the piece will bend in one direction when heated, and in the other when cooled, and can be used to open or close electrical circuits, as in thermostats.