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Nested Grid Model generated every 12 hours by NCEP.

Category:Meteorology

Thames Oil Spill Cleaning Association

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A wide range of indices including shares, stocks and fixed interest securities published by the.

Category:Financial Terms

A volume. Pounds per hour.

Category:Sea Words

To coat a metal surface with zinc using any of various processes.

An index calculated from total dissolved solids, calcium concentration, total alkalinity, pH and solution temperature that shows the tendency of a water solution to precipitate or dissolve calcium carbonate.

The process of cooling by which a heat absorbing media absorbs heat from one source and radiates the heat away.

Category:Energy Terms

A way of joining photovoltaic cells by connecting positive leads to negative leads; such a configuration increases the voltage.

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(1) In heat treatment, to reheat hardened steel or hardened cast iron to some temperature below the eutectoid temperature for the purpose of decreasing hardness and increasing toughness. The process is also sometimes applied to normalized steel. (2) In to ...

Routine broadcast of meteorological information for aircraft in flight.

Category:Meteorology

A house built into the ground or slope of a hill, or which has most or all exterior surfaces covered with earth.

Category:Energy Terms

Additional thickness of planking on a wooden ship about her waterline to give the vessel more stability.

Category:Sea Words

A charge for services performed in connection with floating elevators.- Charges assessed for the handling of grain through grain elevators.

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A letter of credit that requires the beneficiary to present only a draft or a receipt for specified funds before receiving payment.

Category:Sea Words

A gigantic sea animal.

Category:Sea Words

(FSA)The replacement regulating body for the Securities and Investments Board (SIB). The FSA, which.

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Steering; keeping the ship on the course given (no lazy steering).

Category:Sea Words

The amount of BTU's/hour or kW's produced by a heating system from the burning of a fuel.

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A radiosonde whose carrier wave is switched on and off in such a manner that the interval of time between the transmission of signals if a function of the magnitude of the meteorological elements being measured.

Category:Meteorology

A layer of semiconductor material, such as copper indium diselenide or gallium arsenide, a few microns or less in thickness, used to make solar photovoltaic cells.

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