A temperature telemeter.

Having no sails up. In heavy weather the windage of the mast and other spars can still be enough to move the boat.

An order placed with a broker to purchase or sell stock, a commodity or financial instrument at.

To store a yacht away on land for the winter

The path followed by electrons from a generation source, through an electrical system, and returning to the source.

An instrument for recording global solar radiation.

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 rain gauge capable of measuring very small amounts of precipitation. Also called micropluviometer, trace recorder.

A measure of air purity that is equal to one complete air change (in an interior space).

A line led to a sail, but is not currently in use. The line currently in use is known as the working sheet. Usually the working and lazy sheets change when the boat is tacked.

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A radiosonde whose carrier wave is switched on and off in such a manner that the interval of time between the transmission of signals if a function of the magnitude of the meteorological elements being measured.

Ropes hung and used for assistance in ascending and descending.

A form of deterioration that is distributed more or less uniformly over a surface; See uniform corrosion.

A container frame fitted to accommodate two or more separate tanks for liquids.

A material that can be used to store thermal energy as latent heat. Various types of materials have been and are being investigated such as inorganic salts, eutectic compounds, and parrafins, for a variety of applications, including solar energy storage ( ...

Aging induced by rapid cooling after solution heat treatment.

A unit of power equal to one joule per second or 10' ergs per second.

The pledging of securities as collateral - for example, to secure the debit balance in a margin.