Transaction or interchange that occurs at the time a container leaves a rail or water terminal.

See principal stress (normal).

A heat exchanger for recovering heat from flue gases for heating water or air.

An instrument for determining the direction from which radio waves approach a receiver. It may consist of a manually operated direction indicator, or it may use a servo system to position the antenna automatically in the direction of the incident waves.

A turbine that is driven by high velocity jets of water or steam from a nozzle directed to vanes or buckets attached to a wheel. (A pelton wheel is an impulse hydroturbine).

Six feet. Comes from the Dutch word "fadom" which was the distance between fingertips of outstretched hands.A unit of measurement relating to the depth of water or to the length of line or cable; one fathom is 6 feet or 1.83 meters

A stationary vessel carrying a light used for navigation, serving the same purpose as a lighthouse.

An instrument used to reveal but not necessarily measure the presence of an electrical quantity. It is used to display the output of a sensing element after suitable amplification and modification. Sometimes called display.

The bearing of an object after magnetic variation has been considered, but without compensation for magnetic deviation.

The discomfort or interference with visual perception when viewing a bright object against a dark background.

A refraction phenomenon similar to a parahelion, but occurring generally at a distance of 120

A depth measuring device.

A halo consisting of a faint white circle passing through the Sun and running parallel to the horizon for as much as 360

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(1) A metal whose potential is highly positive relative to the hydrogen electrode. (2) A metal with marked resistance to chemical reaction, particularly to oxidation and to evolution by inorganic acids. The term as often used is synonymous with precious m ...

A disparaging term used to describe executives who earn high salaries and bonuses.

Goods floating on surface of sea after a wreck.

(1) A wind shift further forward relative to the boats direction or heading. (2) A bar or angle under a deck the same size as deck beams. It is used around stair openings in deck, small hatch openings, or at dead end of longitudinals.

The voiding of a buy or sell.

A type of weld cracking that usually occurs below 203