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A coupling pin centered on the front underside of a chassis; couples to the tractor.

(1) To adjust the sails for best advantage. (2) Fore and aft balance of a boat. If either the bow or stern is depressed, the vessel is said to be down by the bow or down by the stern. (3) To trim is to adjust. It does not just apply to sheets. You can tri ...

An instrument for measuring, testing, or registering.

A term applicable to personal pensions regarding tax rules which allow an individual to make.

Salt Water Departure Draft

Two or more people owning property. In the event of the death of one of the tenants, the property.

An instrument which measures combined direct solar radiation and diffuse sky radiation. See pyrheliometer, Robitzsch actinograph. solarimeter. See also albedometer.

An electrode immersed in a suitable electrolyte, designed for measurements of electrode potential; A pure metal in contact with a solution of known concentration of its own ion, at a specific temperature develops a potential which is characteristic and re ...

The fitting which connects the boom to the mast.

Localized corrosion frequently observed in oilwell tubing in which a circumfrential attack is observed near a region of metal "upset".

The total of direct solar radiation and diffuse sky radiation received by a unit horizontal surface. Global radiation is measured by pyranometers.

The ratio of the output of an instrument to the input value, i.e. a rain gauge with a sensitivity of 1 tip per 0.01"

Nautical equivalent of ceiling

Cargo, normally cars, shipped in pieces to be assembled at destination.

A heat exchanger for recovering heat from flue gases for heating water or air.

At right angles to the centerline of the boat; rowboat seats are generally athwart ships.

See Gunwhale

See: 'cancellation.