Abbreviation for "With Particular Average."

The practice of using a single meter to measure consumption and generation of electricity by a small generation facility (such as a house with a wind or solar photovoltaic system). The net energy produced or consumed is purchased from or sold to the gener ...

A construction element used for ceiling support.

(1) In good condition. (2) To adjust to proper shape or size.

Confined Space Safety Practices.

The attenuation of light.

Embrittlement resulting from bombardment with neutrons, usually encountered in metals that have been exposed to a neutron flux in the core of a reactor. In steels, neutron embrittlement is evidenced by a rise in the ductile-to-brittle transition temperatu ...

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Nested Grid Model generated every 12 hours by NCEP.

See radar theodolite, radio direction-finder.

A mortgage which guarantees the interest rate charged will remain sandwiched between two specified.

The number of degrees of list a vessel has. The first indication that a vessel may need to reef is when there is too great an angle of heel.

Valve of a pump box; to prime a pump.

A unit used to rate the performance of a solar photovoltaic (PV) cells, modules, or arrays; the maximum nominal output of a PV device, in Watts (Wp) under standardized test conditions, usually 1000 Watts per square meter of sunlight with other conditions, ...

Plating wherein fine metal powders are peened onto the work by tumbling or other means.

A device for converting continuous circular motion into reciprocating rectilinear motion.

Broadly, insurance covering loss or damage of goods at sea. Marine insurance typically compensates the owner of merchandise for losses sustained from fire, shipwreck, etc., but excludes losses that can be recovered from the carrier.

The processes that a work input/output system undergoes and in which the initial and final states are identical.

An organisation established in 1989 to improve the image of Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs).

The wind speed and direction in an undisturbed flow.