The minimum temperature at which combustion of a solid or fluid can occur.

Balance of the water resources of a region, comparing precipitation and inflow with outflow, evaporation, and accumulation.

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

A type of solar thermal collector in which a heat transfer fluid drips out of header pipe at the top of the collector, runs down the collector absorber and into a tray at the bottom where it drains to a storage tank.

Is the ratio of the theoretical work requirement to the actual work required to be performed on the gas for compression and delivery.

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 ...

Defense Transportation System.

Frisian Shipyard Welgelegen. Netherlands

Carriage and Insurance Paid To

Defense Energy Support Center

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A compressor belonging to the group of displacement reciprocating compressors.

See: 'endowment.

Those causes of loss for which the carrier is not legally liable. The elemental risks of ocean transport.

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.

A docking line going at approximately a right angle from the boat to the dock, preventing movement away from the dock.

An electrical device for converting alternating current to direct current. The chamber in a cooling device where water is separated from the working fluid (for example ammonia).

An order to stop; as, "Avast heaving!"

Numbers of large pieces of floating ice that have come together and lie more or less in contact.

To fill the seams of a vessel with pitch.