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Integrated services digital network

A device that combines several separate communications signals into one and outputs them on a single line.

Also called solidification crackinghot cracking of weldments is caused by the segregation at grain boundaries of low-melting constituents in the weld metal. This can resultin grain-boundary tearing under thermal contraction stresses. Hot cracking can be m ...

Ralph Elliott was an accountant who lived from 1871 to 1948 and who is remembered by technical.

A state benefit payable after the expiry of state sickness benefit if a person is still unfit to.

A bond which provides income over its life and at maturity the original investment is returned. .

International Safety Management Code 1994 IMO, International Oil Pollution Certificate ISF Regulation aimed at improving

Devices used between rotating and stationary parts to separate, and minimized leakage between, areas of unequal pressures.

(EGM)An EGM is a special meeting of a company and its shareholders which can be called by company.

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The difference between the air temperature and the dew-point. Also called dew-point deficit, dew-point depression.

Same as 0.4535924277 kilograms.

Abbreviation for (1) "Interstate Commerce Commission," (2) "International Chamber of Commerce."

A stress that causes two parts of an elastic body. on either side of a typical stress plane, to pull apart. Contrast with compressive stress.

See 'futures.

A sailboat with its bow pointed directly into the wind, preventing the sails from filling properly and stopping the boat. It can be very difficult to get a boat that is in irons back under sail. also known as "In Stays".

Originally, to suck rum from a coconut, the end of the nut resembling a monkey's face. Later, illicitly to suck spirit from a cask, usually through a straw. Also called Bleed the Monkey.