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An instrument for determining the direction from which radio waves approach a receiver. It may consist of a manually operated direction indicator, or it may use a servo system to position the antenna automatically in the direction of the incident waves. T ...

A heavy colorless gas that does not support combustion but is formed by the combustion and decomposition of organic substances. Found in some ambient air conditions.

Low Pressure Turbine

Lloyd's Register of Shipping (British Class Society)

Any of several processes in which both nitrogen and carbon are absorbed into the surface layers of a ferrous material at temperatures below the lower critical temperature and, by diffusion, create a concenteration gradient. Nitrocarburizing is performed p ...

The maximum energy demand or load in a specified time period.

A term applied to warm-air heating systems that deliver heated air to rooms by means of registers or baseboards located along exterior walls.

An arbitrage transaction applied on a futures market where the cash or spot price of for example,.

Also known as income drawdown and flexible pension. See 'personal pension.

A device used to hold liquid-in-glass maximum and minimum thermometers in the proper recording position inside an instrument shelter, and to permit them to be read and reset. See Townsend support.

Landfall. To reach shore.

Loadline (International Convention On Load Lines)

An L/C guaranteed by both the issuing and advising banks of payment so long as seller's documents are in order, and the L/C terms are met. Only applied to irrevocable L/C's. The confirming bank assumes the credit risk of the issuing bank.

A wedge-shaped piece of timber used to secure barrels against movement.

Same as 0.4535924277 kilograms.

Dangle a man from one of the yard arms, sometimes by the neck, if the man was to be killed, and sometimes by the toes, if he was merely to be tortured. A severe punishment used aboard sailing ships long ago. Today, a reprimand.

A company whose main purpose is the financing of hire purchase.

A metallurgical term describing the formation of graphite in iron or steel, usually from decomposition of iron carbide at elevated temperatures. Not recommended as a term to describe graphitic corrosion.

A semiconductor which exhibits rapid and extremely large changes in resistance for relatively small changes in temperature.