Large Amplitude Motions and Loads

A subtle, diumal component of the wind velocity leading to a diumal shift of the wind or turning of the wind with the sun, produced bv the east-to-west progression of daytime surface heating.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

The compass points of North, East, South and West. Intercardinal or half-cardinal points are Southeast, Southwest, Northwest and Northeast

The ability of a material to deform plastically without fracturing, measured by elongation or reduction of area in a tensile test, by height of cupping in an Erichsen test, or by other means.

In the US, the rules under which a corporation's internal management operates. They include details.

Newly Industrialized Country

A reversing thermometer (for seawater temperature) which is not protected against hydrostatic pressure. The mercury bulb is therefore squeezed, and the amount of mercury broken off on reversal is a function of both temperature and of hydrostatic pressure.

A charter in which the bare ship is chartered without crew; the charterer, for a stipulated sum taking over the vessel for a stated period of time, with a minimum of restrictions; the charterer appoints the master and the crew and pays all running expense ...

An investment strategy which seeks to identify companies whose net assets per share are worth.

The purchase of a call with a high strike price against the sale of a call with a lower strike.

The commencement of regular payments from capital which has accumulated in an.

A general term for instruments designed to measure the speed or force of the wind.

The weight of a material per unit of volume compared to the weight of the same volume of water.

The date on which a bond may be redeemed by the issuer before maturity which may be at par or at a.

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 ...

A general term to designate apparatus designed to observe the details of weather during thunderstorms.

A recording anemometer.

Abbreviation for "Destination Delivery Charge." A charge, based on container size, that is applied in many tariffs to cargo. This charge is considered accessorial and is added to the base ocean freight. This charge covers crane lifts off the vessel, draya ...

An obsolete historical term denoting a form of stress-corrosion cracking most frequently encountered in carbon steels or iron-chromium-nickel alloys that are exposed to concentrated hydroxide solutions at temperatures of 200 to 250