The process of transmitting electricity over one or more separately owned electric transmission and distribution systems. (See Wholesale and Retail Wheeling.)

Any bank, stockyard, warehouse, depository or other facility that is authorised by an exchange for.

(1) A reaction in which there is an increase in valence resulting from a loss of electrons. Contrast with reduction. (2) A corrosion reaction in which the corroded metal forms an oxide; usually applied to reaction with a gas containing elemental oxygen, s ...

A construction element that inhibits termites from entering building foundations and walls.

The current flowing to or from a unit area of an electrode surface, generally expressed as amps per sq ft or milliamperes per sq ft (also milliamps per sq cm, etc).

The voiding of a buy or sell.

The distance between a rope's adjacent strands, giving a measure of the tightness of the lay. The shorter the distance, the harder the lay. When a line has been overused and the lay has become slack, it is said to be slack-jawed.

Subcommittee on Stability Loadlines and Fishing Vessel Safety (IMO)

An incorporated right, liberty, privilege, or use of another entity's property, distinct from ownership, without profit or compensation; a right-of-way.

The maximum rope tension (in kilonewtons), measured at drum exit when the drum just commences to rotate on the opposite direction to the applied driving torque, the prime mover being set for maximum torque in automatic control, with the rope wound on t ...

A set of electrical conductors, often on a backplane, that carry data and power signals among the various components of a computer.

A common type of terrestrial scintillation; shimmering over a hot surface (such as a roadway) on a quiet, cloudless. summer day.

A device for converting a solid fuel to a gaseous fuel.

The ratio of the electric current density to the electric field in a material. Also called electrical conductivity or specific conductance.

AMMONIA (Anhydrous). Gas usually carried by LPG tankers at about -50 deg.c. Lighter than air, it is easily escaping from any openning and be highly dangerous to inhale in great uantity. Reacting violently with water. All degrees centigrade: Boiling point: ...

Abbreviation for Instrument Flight Rules, but commonly used to refer to the weather and/or flight conditions to which these rules apply, i.e. low visibility.

When the water has large or breaking waves in stormy conditions.

A thin sheet of material (metal) of a heat exchanger that conducts heat to a fluid.

A loop shaped fitting attached to the deck, spar, boom, etc., used to secure a line or block to some part of the vessel.

A graphical device used for the determination of the speed of the geostrophic wind from the isobar or contour-line spacing on a synoptic chart.