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The load created by moisture in the air, including from outside air infiltration and that from indoor sources such as occupants, plants, cooking, showering, etc.

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A term generally applied to individual solar collectors, and typically to solar photovoltaic collectors or modules.

Category:Energy Terms

PPF

Port Forward

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The maximum rope speed (in meters per second) that the winch can maintain with the rope wound on the drum in a single layer, and with negligible tension on the rope, normally not more than 10% of the drum load.

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In blue water beyond the 100-fathom line.

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RIB

Rigid Inflatable Boat

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Energy that comes from splitting atoms of radioactive materials, such as uranium, and which produces radioactive wastes.

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A building element that shades windows, walls, and doors from direct solar radiation and protects these elements from precipitation.

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This device can automatically turn the heater off at night and on in the morning.

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A special machinery device, which is applied on the dredger ship for digging, loosing soil, mashing, and sucking mud/rock. underwater

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Noise which is varying in level rising and falling. For the purpose of this Code it may be taken to mean fluctuations in excess of the steady noise as defined in 1.4.31 and excludes impulse noise as defined in 1.4.14.

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FT

Fisheries Training vessel.

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Forecasting weather by the use of numerical models, run on high speed computers. Most of the NWP for the National Weather Service is done at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).

Category:Meteorology

A term used to designate an object for which the correct name has been forgotten.

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(FIBV)The International Federation of Stock Exchanges - a Paris-based organisation that encourages.

Category:Financial Terms

Wash trading, bucketing, cross trading, or other types of trade to give the appearance of trading.

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LLP

Lloyd's of London Press

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Power generation equipment or system capacity to meet peak power demands.

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The components which form a company's capital :ordinary shares, preference shares, debentures and.

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Every company has an 'accounting reference date'. This is a date which it chooses itself, and.

Category:Financial Terms