Contraction for Empty Repositioning. The movement of empty containers.

These lights use an electrically heated filament to produce light in a vacuum or inert gas-filled bulb.

A liquid-in-glass or liquid-in-metal thermometer using mercury as the liquid.

Method of payment for goods in which documents transferring title are given the buyer upon payment of cash to an intermediary acting for the seller, usually a commission house.

Openings in the bottom or transom of a boat to drain water when sailing.

Special Periodical Survey of Inert Gas System

The conversion of mechanical, electrical or magnetic energy into heat.

The labels placed on appliances to enable consumers to compare appliance energy efficiency and energy consumption under specified test conditions as required by the Federal Trade Commission.

That temperature at which, in a specified latitude, the reading of a particular barometer requires no temperature or latitude correction.

An idealized process in which a working fluid (water, air, ammonia, etc) successively changes its state (from a liquid to a gas and back to a liquid) for the purpose of producing useful work or energy, or transferring energy.

A crack or hole that accidentally admits a gas or lets it escape.

Futures contracts where the underlying instruments are financial such as shares, interest rates,.

A pointed device which indicates the amount of resistance encountered when it is forced into a material such as snow or soil. See ram penetrometer.

Competent Harbour Authority

A party named in an instrument as the beneficiary of the funds. Under letters of credit, the payee is either the drawer of the draft or a bank.

The products of all combustion processes formed by the combination of nitrogen and oxygen.

A solar water or space-heating system in which solar energy is collected, and/or moved by natural convection without using pumps or fans. Passive systems are typically integral collector/storage (ICS; or batch collectors) or thermosyphon systems. The majo ...

An income tax allowance which can be claimed if certain payments are being made to friendly.

National Fluid Power Association.

Cargo discharged in excess of the quantity on the manifest.