Waste material from households and businesses in a community that is not regulated as hazardous.

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.

The swiveled opening at the top of a ventilator.

Income usually relevant to two people (for example man and wife) which continues until the death of.

A drogue or drag device to slow down a boat, hold its bow into the sea in heavy weather, and reduce the boat's drift downwind.

The medium or material that does the actual filtering or separating. May be paper, wire mesh, special cellulose, inorganic plastic, or a combination.

To fake line back and forth on deck.

The length of the boat at the waterline.

The ratio and percent of the actual delivered capacity (measured at inlet temperature, pressure and gas composition) to the piston displacement.

A situation where the exercise price of a call/put option approximates to the current market price.

A point (or line) on a scale used for reference or comparison purposes. In calibration of meteorological thermometers, for example, the fiducial points are 100

A container fitted with a means of forced air ventilation.

Marine Gas Oil

A winch, frequently unpowered, having rope storage capacity and used for topping and lowering a derrick boom while the boom is unloaded and for supporting it while it is supporting a load.

The carbon left after evaporating an oil under controlled conditions.

A type of photoelectric photometer used to measure high-altitude winds on the assumption that stellar scintillation is caused by atmospheric inhomogeneities being carried along by wind near the tropopause level.

A float with a flag at the top of a pole. Used to mark a position such as for a mooring, a race or a man overboard.

Compressors of 20 HP or less, generally combined with all the components required to put the into operation.

The relationship of flow per unit area to differential pressure across a filter medium.

A reaction in which there is a decrease in valence resulting from a gain in electrons. Contrast with oxidation.