To allow or augment the natural movement of cooler air from exterior, shaded areas of a building through or around a building.

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

Rigid Inflatable Boat

Areas on a steel fracture surface having a characteristic white crystalline appearance.

As provided in the Shipping Act of 1984, a contract between a shipper (or a shippers association) and an ocean common carrier (or conference) in which the shipper makes a commitment to provide a certain minimum quantity of cargo or freight revenue over a ...

A pyrheliometer of the thermoelectric type. Radiation is allowed to fall on two concentric silver rings, the outer covered with magnesium oxide and the inner covered with lamp black. A system of thermocouples (thermopile) is used to measure the temperatur ...

Hydrostatic Balanced Loading

To sail closer to the wind than another boat on the same tack.

Costs that are repetitive and occur when an organization produces similar goods or services on a continuing basis.

A type of incandescent lamp that contains a halogen gas in the bulb, which reduces the filament evaporation rate increasing the lamp life. The high operating temperature and need for special fixtures limits their use to commercial applications and for use ...

Removal of worn or damaged gear and the fitting of new gear in replacement.

Factor for a loading condition that displaced the crack faces in a direction normal to the crack plane (also known as the opening mode of deformation).

Rumanian Register (Class Society)

Short period oscillation in level of enclosed, or partly enclosed, area of water when not due to the action of tide-raising forces.

Free On Rail

A letter of credit forwarded to the beneficiary by the advising bank without engagement on the part of the advising bank.

A modification of the dew cell used in radiosonde equipment.

The record of courses steered and distances traveled since the time a ship's position was last fixed by shore or astronomical observations.

The stay leading from the mast to the bow

Short shrouds which give support to the top of a lower mast.