(FCM)In the US, an individual or organisation accepting orders to buy or sell futures contracts or.

The position of a flag when lowered halfway down.

Location where shipment begins its movement.

CFM flowing through the compressor inlet filter or inlet valve under rated conditions

Free Water

A sail set forward of the foremast on the headstay; a foresail

To haul in.

A white disk 12" or more in diameter which is lowered into the sea to estimate transparency of the water. The depths are noted at which it first disappears when lowered and reappears when raised.

Taxation which is levied in an indirect way rather than being charged directly on an individual's.

All orders in a floor broker's possession that have not yet been.

Energy produced by the conversion of biomass directly to heat or to a liquid or gas that can be converted to energy.

The working portion of a cruise between ports. A long cruise may have many legs. The distance sailed on one tack. The course from one race mark to another.

In railcar or container shipments, the weight of the empty railcar or empty container.

A raw material that can be converted to one or more products.

A rotation anemometer in which the axis of rotation is horizontal. The instrument has either flat vanes (as in the air meter) or helicoidal vanes (as in the propeller anemometer). The relation between wind speed and angular rotation is almost linear.

A demand by a company to shareholders to pay a further instalment on partly paid.

The wind speed and direction at various levels in the atmosphere above the level reached by surface weather observations.

A measure of the efficiency of an appliance's energy efficiency.

Is used in psychrometry and is the temperature recorded by a thermometer whose bulb has been covered with a wetted wick and whirled on a sling psychrometer. Taken with the dry bulb, it permits determination of relative humidity of the atmosphere.