A condition that results from an imbalance between the number of protons and the number of electrons in a substance.

A device that cuts off the flow of hot or cold air to or from a room as controlled by a thermostat.

A commission issued, licensing the commander of a privately owned ship to cruise in search of enemy merchant vessels. see Privateer.

A machine with a common prime mover which will provide independently the functions of either a windlass or a mooring winch (automatic or non-automatic).

A structural, load-carrying building member with an open web system that supports floors and roofs utilizing wood or specific steels and is designed as a simple span member.

The payment of a regular income by a life company to an annuitant in exchange for a lump sum.

The largest of the headsails; corresponds to the genoa.

A type of hydroturbine in which the entire generator is mounted inside the water passageway as an integral unit with the turbine. These installations can offer significant reductions in the size of the powerhouse.

A metal plating process wherein the plating current is provided by galvanic action between the work metal and a second metal, without the use of an external source of current.

Corrosion with gas as the only corrosive agent and without any aqueous phase on the surface of the metal. Also called dry corrosion.

A system of physical units based on the use of the centimeter, gram. and the second as elementary quantities of length. mass. and time.

Marine Accident Investigation Branch

A mutual fund which invests in a balance of common stock, bonds and preferred stock with an.

The frequency-dependent complex-valued proportionality factor (A

A boat that is letting herself be subjected to prevailing conditions without the use of sails or other devices. Lying ahull is usually not preferred to other actions because a boat may tend to lie with her beam to the waves and the wind parallel to the wa ...

Small cask used for carrying drinking water in a boat.

Port Billing Rate.

Bar charts have a wide variety of applications and in the financial markets are used by technical.

The maximum load that a motor is capable of supplying.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard code used to represent data using 8 bits (7 data bits and I parity bit) per character.