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Metal strip and lead fastener used for locking freight car or truck doors. Seals are numbered for record purposes.

The sovereign power to take property for a necessary public use, with reasonable compensation.

Stout line or cable fore and aft around the deck of the boat to keep crew from falling overboard.

Generic term for rapid variations in apparent position, brightness, or color of a distant luminous. object viewed through the atmosphere.

In electroplating, a supplementary anode positioned so as to raise the current density on a certain area of the cathode and thus obtain better distribution of plating.

Under the First Law of Thermodynamics, efficiency is the ratio of work or energy output to work or energy input, and cannot exceed 100 percent. Efficiency under the Second Law of Thermodynamics is determined by the ratio of the theoretical minimum energy ...

An instrument for determining the direction of cloud motion. There are two basic designs of nephoscope, the directvision nephoscope and the mirror nephoscope.

A stream of vapor, gas or liquid coming out fast from a narrow orifice.

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

The stage on a fixed river gauge at which it is necessary to begin issuing warnings or river forecasts if adequate precautionary measures are to be taken before flood stage is reached.

On square-rigged ships, the blocks attached to those yards on which studdingsails were set.

The general name for ropes, blocks and tackles, tools, etc. (things).

A mortgage which guarantees the interest rate charged will not rise above a certain level. But it.

In general, any object that reflects incident energy. Usually it is a device designed for specific reflection characteristics.

Solar radiation scattered by particles in the atmosphere.

The maximum current density that can be used to obtain a desired electrode reaction without undue interference such as from polarization.

In the US, the amount (normally fixed) which a policyholder is obliged to pay prior to an.

The process of breaking down organic material; reduction of the net energy level and change in physical and chemical composition of organic material.

The amount of energy derived from an electrical source per unit quantity of electricity passing through the source.2. Electrical potential; voltage.