The resistance to movement. (2) An anchor drags when its flukes do not hold.

The minimum temperature shown by a minimum thermometer exposed in an open situation with its bulb at the level of the tops of the grass blades of short turf.

(FSCS) The Financial Services Compensation Scheme is the sole financial compensatory scheme. It was set up.

A sinusoidal quantity having a frequency that is an integral multiple of the frequency of a periodic quantity to which it is related.

Goods transported in a ship, or the money paid for such goods.

Sundays, holidays excluded

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

A photometric unit of illuminance or illumination equal to one lumen per square meter

Measure of alkalinity or acidity in water and water containing fluids. Can be used to determine the corrosion inhibiting characteristic in water based fluids. Typically, pH > 8.0 is required to inhibit corrosion of iron and ferrous alloys in water based f ...

The range of operating conditions of a device within which operating influences are negligible. The range is usually narrow. Reference operating conditions are the conditions under which reference performance is stated and the base from which the values o ...

A device used on certain types of instruments to prevent unwanted radiation from affecting the measurement of a quantity. Also called solar radiation shield.

Royal Mail Ship

The actual time during which physical events take place.

A stopper used to prevent water from entering the hawse hole in heavy weather.

The value of a personal portfolio, product, or investment after depreciation and interest on debt capital are subtracted from operating income. It can also be thought of as the equivalent worth of all cash flows relative to a base point called the present ...

A rate applicable from a point on one transportation line to a point on another line, made by agreement and published in a single tariff by all transportation lines over which the rate applies.

The top of the mast

Slang for anchor

Breaking away of a mass of ice from a glacier or iceberg.

(1) The formation at high temperatures of thick corrosion product layers on a metal surface. (2) The deposition of water-insoluble constituents on a metal surface.