Directory: All Listings RSS

Filter listings...

The statement that the viscosity of air is independent of the density of air.

Category:Meteorology

Wind with a speed between 4 and 6 knots (4 and 7 mph), Beaufort scale number 2.

Category:Meteorology

A battery-powered electrically driven vehicle.

Category:Energy Terms

Those frames of a ship's hull which are equal in area, one forward and one aft of the ship's center of gravity.

Category:Sea Words

A federal agency established in 1933 to develop the Tennessee river valley region of the southeastern U.S., and which is now nation's largest power producer.

Category:Energy Terms

An absolute temperature scale with the degree of the Fahrenheit scale and the zero point of the Kelvin scale. The freezing point of water equals 491.69

Category:Meteorology

PWS

Prince William Sound

Category:Abbreviations

An air flow caused by a fan that draws air through the heat exchanger core in a uniform pattern to dissipate the sensible heat.

Category:Sea Words

Metal or wooden peg inserted in gunwale of a boat for an oar to heave against when rowing without crutch or rowlock.

Category:Sea Words

The compression of an air actuator (air spring) below its design height.

Category:Sea Words

The level at which ice crystals and snowflakes melt as they descend through the atmosphere.

Category:Meteorology

The sum of all the costs both recurring and nonrecurring, related to a product, structure, system, or service during its life span or specified time period.

Category:Energy Terms

Ventilation that is created by the differences in the distribution of air pressures around a building. Air moves from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure with gravity and wind pressure affecting the airflow. The placement and control of doors ...

Category:Energy Terms

a circular donut-shaped buoy designed to support a person in the water. It is attached to the vessel with a (floating) line so that the person can be hauled back to the boat.

Category:Sea Words

Dispatch Half Demurrage on Working Time Saved Both Ends

Category:Abbreviations

The array of indicating marks and figure in relation to which the position of an index is observed, i.e. a scale plate on a recorder.

Category:Meteorology

Permanent pip iron ballast specially shaped and placed along each side of keelson. Name is sometimes given to any iron ballast.

Category:Sea Words

HFO

Heavy Fuel Oil

Category:Abbreviations

Capacity of a soil or other surface to be penetrated by water sinking into the ground under the force of gravity. It thus expresses the rate of percolation.

Category:Meteorology

A term previously given to the most actively traded shares on the London Stock Exchange along with.

Category:Financial Terms