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

(FNMA)In the US, a government-backed corporation which purchases mortgages from lenders and resells them.

The maximum cyclic stress value that a metal can with stand for a specified number of cycles or length of time in a given corrosive environment. See corrosion fatigue strength

Sea water used for ballast, let into the double bottom, or into a water-ballast tank, or trimming tanks.

The amount of power a wind turbine can produce at its rated wind speed, e.g., 100 kW at 20 mph. The rated wind speed generally corresponds to the point at which the conversion efficiency is near its maximum. Because of the variability of the wind, the amo ...

The part of the rotating element of a dynamic compressor that imparts energy to the flowing medium by means of centrifugal force. It consists of a number of blades mounted so as to rotate with the shaft.

Correction Temperature of Tank Shell

The wind speed with 50 percent probability of occurring.

A room heat delivery (or exchanger) component of a hydronic (hot water or steam) heating system; hot water or steam is delivered to it by natural convection or by a pump from a boiler.

International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation

A small vessel fitted for towing.

The total rate from the point of origin to final destination.

Integrated Flood Observing and Warning System. National Weather Service flood warning program.

See salt fog test.

An experimental technique where by an electrode is maintained at a constant current in an electrolyte.

A machine designed to drop and hoist the anchor. It has one or more cable lifters mounted on a horizontal shaft, each being fitted with a brake. The cable lifters are capable of being declutched from the prime mover. One or two warping ends may also be fi ...

(IIEDS)A service for individual investors which puts their orders at the head of any Tandem Systems Queue..

The day on which the availability of a prospectus is advertised, and a flotation is officially.

That portion of the polarization of a cell produced by concentration changes resulting from passage of' current through the electrolyte.

(1) A molecular structure in which a heterocyclic ring can he formed by the unshared electrons of neighboring atoms. (2) A coordination compound in which a heterocyclic ring is formed by a metal bound to two atoms of the associated ligand. See also comple ...