The Swedish equivalent of the Footsie.

A clause in an insurance policy which specifies items or conditions not covered.

Corrosion resulting from a cathodic condition of a structure usually caused by the reaction of an amphoteric metal with the alkaline products of electrolysis.

An ice coating with a consistency intermediate between glaze and rime.

Clauses introduced by charterers based on shortage of delivered cargo because of increased oil prices.

A colloquial term in western Australia for a squall, associated with thunder, on the northwest coast in summer.

See: 'State.

A thermograph in which ventilation is provided by a suction fan.

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

Those elements of building used to control the interior climate.

Kilograms per square centimeter absolute.

A mooring winch with the additional ability to haul or render a mooring rope within selectable limits without direct human intervention.

A heat absorbing reaction or a reaction that requires heat.

An atmometer consisting of a porous porcelain or ceramic container connected to a calibrated reservoir filled with distilled water. Evaporation is determined by the depletion of water in the reservoir.

Regulatory Evaluation

The standard deviation of a sufficiently large number of measurements of the same quantity by the same instrument or method. The non-correctable part of the inaccuracy of an instrument, it represents the limit of measurement precision. The uncertainty of ...

Passenger Vessel Association.

Instrument for measuring the intensity of radiant energy. Its principle is based on the variation of electrical resistance, with the incoming radiation, of one or both the metallic strips which the instrument comprises.

Is the pressure existing at a given temperature in a closed vessel containing a liquid and the vapor from that liquid after equilibrium conditions have been reached. It is dependent only on temperature and must be determined experimentally.

The practice of buying shares in a potential target at the beginning of a trading day in the hope.