Any Boat Designed with a pointed bow and stern

A term normally associated with accident insurance. Under certain conditions, for example a road.

The interface between an eletrode or a suspended particle and an electrolyte created by charge-charge interaction (charge separation) leading to an alignment of oppositely charged ions at the surface of the electrode or particle. The simplest model is rep ...

Taxation of corporate earnings and subsequently taxation of.

People resident and domiciled in the UK are liable to income tax from their world-wide income.

A reversal pattern in technical analysis.

To double a vessel's mooring lines.

A heat exchanger in a solar water heating system that has two distinct walls between the heat transfer fluid and the domestic water, to ensure that there is no mixing of the two.

A type of window having two layers (panes or glazing) of glass separated by an air space. Each layer of glass and surrounding air space reradiates and traps some of the heat that passes through thereby increasing the windows resistance to heat loss (R-val ...

A technique for making winds aloft observations in which two theodolites located at either end of a baseline follow the ascent of a pilot balloon. Synchronous measurements of the elevation and azimuth angles of the balloon. taken at periodic intervals, pe ...

To take down a sail quickly; the entire action of getting a sail out of the wind and furling it.

One of the main USA share indices which monitors the movement of 30 industrial companies traded.

In 1887 Charles Dow (as in 'The Dow Jones') developed two stock market 'averages':

Refers to a transaction made at a price lower than the preceding.

A relatively small-scale, downward moving current of air.

Line attached to the bottom of the boom used to flatten the sail by pulling the boom down, and thus tightening the luff of the sail. (2) A line used for hauling down a jib or staysail.

The portion of the flow stream which has already passed through the system or the portion of the system located after a filter or separator/filter.

Solar and terrestrial radiation directed downwards (towards the earth's surface); incoming radiation.

The direction toward which the wind is blowing; with the wind.

In the direction the wind is blowing. A boat sailing downwind, away from the wind source with the sails let out all the way, is running with the wind.