Said of an object that is secured to another; attached, fixed, secured.

In physics, any process in which the flux density (or power, amplitude, intensity, illuminance, etc.) of a "parallel beam" of energy decreases with increasing distance from the source. Attenuation is always due to the action of the transmitting medium its ...

A type of heat pump that uses sealed horizontal or vertical pipes, buried in the ground, as heat exchangers through which a fluid is circulated to transfer heat.

A refined petroleum product suitable for use as a fuel in internal combustion engines.

To let out a line or sail slowly; to slacken or relieve tension on a line; to take pressure off.

A line secured along the deck to lay hold of in heavy weather; a line thrown on board a wreck by life-saving crew; a knotted line secured to the span between life-boat davits for the use of the crew when hoisting and lowering

Corrosion that occurs under some coatings in the form of randomly distributed threadlike filaments.

Any person or entity who, in a contract of carriage, undertakes to perform or to procure the performance of carriage by rail, road, sea, air, inland waterway or by a combination of such modes.

A call requesting direction in answer to the report of a lookout that an object has been sighted.

Where a company provides an employee with a company motor car which is used privately in addition to.

The rate of heat production by a steady current in any part of an electrical circuit that is proportional to the resistance and to the square of the current, or, the internal energy of an ideal gas depends only on its temperature.

(1) Producing a chromate conversion coating on magnesium for temporary protection or for a paint base. (2) The solution that produces the conversion coating.

A series of Nansen-bottle water samples and associated temperature observations resulting from one release of a messenger.

Money, in the form of notes and coins, which constitutes payment for goods at the time of.

A fabric bag through which a gas stream is passed for the removal of particulate matter.

General name for an instrument which measures the earth's magnetic field intensity.

Where meals are eaten

A projecting aperture at the end of a tube, pipe etc. serving as an outlet for compressed air. Reduces the demand on the compressor by generating the highest thrust and volume for the lowest possible air consumption.

The date by which a shareholder must own shares in order to qualify for a.

The quantity of heat produced to change a unit weight of a liquid to vapor with no change in temperature.