Condition of a sailing ship when all sails have been taken down in a severe storm, very often a hazardous undertaking if there is a high sea running.

That part of an audio-modulated radiosonde consisting of the baroswitch, the sensing elements, the reference elements, and the relay.

Rapid Response Team.

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.

Packages loaded on a pallet, in a crate or any other way that enables them to be handled at one time as a unit.

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. A standard code used to represent data using 8 bits per character.

The part on the object which is hauled upon.

A glass membrane electrode used to measure pH or hydrogen-ion activity.

An instrument which measures the scattering function of particles suspended in a medium in order to determine the visual range through the medium. See visibility meter.

ACRONYM - National Pipe Thread standard. A description of a specific pipe thread

Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System

Nautical slang for the spirit of the sea, usually in the form of a sea devil. Davy Jones's Locker is the bottom of the sea, the final resting place of sunken ships, articles lost or thrown overboard, and of men buried at sea.

A type of clutch which has a spring loaded jaw or detented rolling element to control torque in an assembly tool.

States that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only changed from one form to another. First Law efficiency measures the fraction of energy supplied to a device or process that it delivers in its output. Also called the law of conservation of energ ...

A gas that does not react with other substances; e.g. argon or krypton; sealed between two sheets of glazing to decrease the U-value (increase the R-Value) of windows.

The wheeling of electric power in amounts and at prices that generally have been negotiated in longterm contracts between the generator and a distributor or very large consumer of power.

A type of heat pump that uses the ground, ground water, or ponds as a heat source and heat sink, rather than outside air. Ground or water temperatures are more constant and are warmer in winter and cooler in summer than air temperatures. Geothermal heat p ...

A device that releases pressure within a radiator when the pressure inside exceeds the operating limits of the vent.

An instrument used for the determination of the electrical conductivity of the atmosphere.

Weight of the goods alone without any immediate wrappings, e.g., the weight of the contents of a tin can without the weight of the can.