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One thousand kilowatt-hours or 1 million watt-hours.

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A device that converts heat or sunlight directly to electricity, invented by Standford Ovshinsky, that has a unique glass composition that changes from an electrically non-conducting state to a semiconducting state.

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The process of the absorption of heat from one location and its transfer to another for rejection or recuperation.

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Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty Implementation

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A double block where the two sheaves lie in a plane one below the other, rather than alongside each other.

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The ratio of the existing amount of water vapor in the air at a given temperature to the maximum amount that could exist at that temperature. Usually expressed in percent.

Category:Meteorology

P4

Measuring point for compressor acceptance test. Distribution pressure (headers).

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The distance a boat can move around its anchor. Swinging room is important because if other boats or objects are within a boat's swinging circle they may collide.

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Money owed by an individual or company to another individual or.

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PUF

Passenger User Fee

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After or trailing edge of a sail; the after edge of a fore-and-aft sail and the outer edges of a square sail.

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The highest operating pressure the system or component is designed to withstand.

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see 'balance of.

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GIN

Sort of large pulley with sheave and steel block found on a derrick

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Life insurance in which the death benefit decreases over the term of the policy although the.

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CMF

Composite Meter Factor

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A means of purifying an air stream by using both gravitational and centrifugal forces.

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A publication setting forth the charges, rates and rules of transportation companies.

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A device used to measure total incident solar radiation (direct beam, diffuse, and reflected radiation) per unit time per unit area.

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