This is a national organization dedicated to representing the interests of cooperative electric utilities and the consumers they serve. Members come from the 46 states that have an electric distribution cooperative.

Family income assurance in which the assured may, if he or she chooses, increase premiums in line.

The distance or length of flow of the air past a point during a given interval of time.

Gross tonnage is the basis on which manning rules and safety regulations are applied, and registration fees are reckoned. Port fees are also often reckoned on the basis of GT and NT. GT and NT are defined according to formulas which take account, among ot ...

A lower-than-usual tariff rate assessed because a shipper offers a greater volume than specified in the tariff. The incentive rate is assessed for that portion exceeding the normal volume.

Energy terms

This designates the resistance of a material to heat conduction. The greater the R-value the larger the number.

Interfacial reaction equivalent to a transfer of charge between electronic and ionic conductors. See also anodic reaction and cathodic reaction.

(ERISA)In the US, a federal law introduced for the protection of participants in private pension.

An instrument used to measure and record earthquake vibrations and other earth tremors.

A compulsory tax on employment and investment income.

Rope made of the fibers of the hemp plant and used for small stuff or less than 24 thread (1.75 inch circumference). (Rope is measured by circumference, wire by diameter.)

A type of water heater that circulates water through a heat exchanger in a boiler. The heated water then flows into an insulated storage tank.

Capacity of a soil or other surface to be penetrated by water sinking into the ground under the force of gravity. It thus expresses the rate of percolation.

An instrument for the measurement of the rate of ice accretion on an unheated body.

Method of producing a chart in which the parallels of latitude and the meridians of longitude intersect each other at right angles.

A deck exposed to the wind and sea.

Abbreviation for "Not Otherwise Indexed By Name."

Sailors' term for an old ship that needed a lot of paint and repairs.

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.