A term used by value investors to describe the issue of shares in a company at a price below the per.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Virgin Islands, British

See aneroid capsule.

Waste Dumping Ship.

A moral, rather than a contractual commitment by a bank to provide a loan to a borrower up to a.

General Lighthouse Authority

The temperature of a medium, such as gas or liquid, which comes into contact with or surrounds an apparatus or building element.

The temperature of a body referred to the absolute zero, at which point the volume of an ideal gas theoretically becomes zero. (Fahrenheit scale is minus 459.67

Maritime Systems Technology program (U.S.)

To let the sheet out slowly while maintaining control.

A sea on the quarter (coming from a side of the stern).

(1) A sailing vessel common in the Far East. It's flat-bottomed, high sterned, has square bows, and has two or three masts carrying lugsails. (2) Old and condemned rope.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

A fluid, such as methanol or ethylene glycol, added to vehicle engine coolant, or used in solar heating system heat transfer fluids, to protect the systems from freezing.

In situations where a person owes money to a creditor, and the creditor is not prepared to accept a.

The formation and instantaneous collapse of innumerable tiny voids or cavities within a liquid subjected to rapid and intense pressure changes. Cavitation produced by ultrasonic radiation is sometimes used to effect violent localized agitation. Cavitation ...

Angled frames in the extreme forward or aft ends of a ship which form the sharp ends of the vessel's hull.

The space-conditioning load of a building.

Term for disabled vessel that had to fall out of a convoy and thus became easy prey for submarines.