Video Display Terminal. An input and display device which includes a keyboard and a screen and allows a human to communicate with a computer.

A salt or ester of carbonic acid.

Assets, purchased as a long term investment for generating profit, such as buildings, plant and.

A line used for suspending articles.

A positively charged ion that migrates through the electrolyte toward the cathode under the influence of a potential gradient. See also anion and ion.

The housing around a motor that supports the active parts and protects them. They come in different varieties (open, protected) depending on the degree of protection required.

A light source composed of a metal base, a glass tube filled with an inert gas or a vapor, and base pins to attach to a fixture.

The electrolyte adjacent to the cathode of an electrolytic cell.

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Having a shape that that is not adversely affected by wind flowing past it.

Is one which 1) handles a small constant flow of liquid with the gas; 2) utilizes evaporative (injection) cooling; or 3) circulates a liquid for sealing and/or cooling. The last may or may not be evaporative cooling.

International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness,Response and Co-operation, IMO

International Maritime Lecturers Association

The development of slight breaks in a coating that do not penetrate to the underlying surface.

A heat storage system that uses a heat storage medium, and where the additional or removal of heat results in a change in temperature.

The stress that will cause fracture in a creep test at a given time in a specified constant environment. Also called stress-rupture strength.

See evaporation pan.

The unit of magnetic field intensity equal to 1 dyne per unit pole.

The cost of storing a physical commodity, consisting of interest on the invested funds, insurance,.

Any quantity, such as force velocity, or acceleration, which has both magnitude and direction at each point in space, as opposed to scalar which has magnitude only. Such a quantity may be represented geometrically by an arrow of length proportional to its ...