Deforming metal plastically under conditions of temperature and strain rote that induce strain hardening. Usually, hut not necessarily, conducted at room temperature. Contrast with hot working.

The falling tide when the water recedes out to the sea and the water level lowers; a period or state of decline.

World Customs Organization (Ex Customs Cooperation Council)

World Trade Organization

A business operated by an agent in conjunction with his/her.

NPFC Integrated Management System.

An electrode in an electrolytic cell that is not mechanically connected to the power supply, but is so placed in the electrolyte, between the anode and cathode, that the part nearer the anode becomes cathodic and the part nearer the cathode becomes anodic ...

International Council of Cruise Lines

Imparting resistance to oxidation to an iron or steel surface by heating in aluminum powder at 800 to 1000

The presence of contaminants in the air in concentrations that prevent the normal dispersive ability of the air, and that interfere with biological processes and human economics.

The ratings under which specified appliances convert energy sources into useful energy, as determined by procedures established by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Any interruption in the normal physical structure or configuration of a part, such as cracks, laps, seams, inclusions, or porosity. A discontinuity may or may not affect the usefulness of the part.

Public Resolution which requires that U.S. Government financed cargoes (Eximbank) must be shipped 100% in U.S. flag ships, but that the requirement may be waived up to 50% in some cases.

To move cargo up line to a vessel leaving sooner than the one booked. (See "Roll.")

The cost of producing electricity up to the point of the powerplant busbar.

Waste Dumping Ship.

World Health Organisation

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

An instrument which records the duration of sunshine and gives a quantitative measure of the amount of sunshine by the action of the sun's rays upon blueprint paper. A type of sunshine recorder.

The electrode of an electrolytic cell at which reduction is the principal reaction. (Electrons How toward the cathode in the external circuit.) Typical cathodic processes are cation' taking up electrons and being discharged, oxygen being reduced. and the ...