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The U.S. government does not issue certificates of free sale. However, the Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, will issue, upon request, a letter of comment to the U.S. manufacturers whose products are subject to the Federal Food, Drug ...

The equipment used to sail a boat, including sails, booms and gaffs, lines and blocks, etc.

A life insurance policy which often attaches to a company pension scheme. The member is typically.

See 'Federal National Mortgage.

FLAG. Broker abbreviation indicating the country in which the vessel is registered. See also FOC.

A metal which because of its relative position in the galvanic series, provides sacrificial protection to metals that are more noble in the series, when coupled in an electrolyte.

Any one of a family of circular arcs consisting of concentric colored bands, arranged from red on the inside to blue on the outside, which may be seen on a "sheet" of water drops (rain, fog, spray). The most common of the many possible is the primary rain ...

Seaward, a safe distance from shore; To keep an offing is to keep a safe distance away from the coast because of navigational dangers, fog, or other hazards.

To fill the seams of a vessel with pitch.

Water of sufficient depth to allow a boat to travel through it.

A curved inlet section on an impeller.

A mallet used for passing serving around a line.

The maximum stress that a material can withstand for an infinitely large number of fatigue cycles. See also fatigue strength.

Individual rooms or zones in a building where temperature is controlled separately from other rooms or zones.

The number found by plotting the octave band spectrum on the NR curves given in IS0 Standard R 1996-1967 and selecting the - r- highest noise rating curve to which the spectrum is tangent.

An instrument which measures the spectral distribution of the intensity of direct solar radiation.

The formation of localized corrosion products scattered over the surface in the form of knoblike mounds called tubercles.

Emission or transfer of energy in the form of electromagnetic waves or particles.

(GTC)An order to a broker to buy or sell shares at a specified price which remains valid until cancelled.