An institution which accepts funds from the public and reinvests in bank deposits, bonds and stocks.

Thermal spraying in which coating material is fed into an oxyfuel gas flame, where it is melted. Compressed gas may or may not be used to atomize the coating material and propel it onto the substrate.

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Precipitation composed of liquid water drops more than 0.5 mm in diameter, failing in relatively straight, but not necessarily vertical, paths. Compare to drizzle.

A device used to remove particulate matter from the waste gasses of a combustion power plant.

The Statistical Classification of Domestic and Foreign Commodities Exported from the United States.

A device for converting the flow of a fluid (air, steam, water, or hot gases) into mechanical motion.

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A gap unintentionally left uncovered while painting or varnishing.

An insurance policy which pays a specified amount to the insured in the event that he/she goes to.

Deforming metal plastically at sucha temperature and strain rate that recrystallization takes place simultaneously with the deformation, thus avoiding any strain hardening.Contrast with c old ii orking.

The stress condition in linear elastic fracture mechanics in which there is zero strain in a direction normal to both the axis of applied tensile stress and the direction of crack growth (that is, parallel to the crack front); most nearly achieved in load ...

Also called postweld heat treatment cracking, stress-relief cracking occurs when susceptible alloys are suhjected to thermal stress relief after welding to reduce residual stresses and improve toughness. Stress-relief cracking occurs only in metals that c ...

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A wind (or component thereof) directed down the slope of an incline and caused by greater air density near the slope than at the same levels some distance horizontally from the slope. Also called drainage wind and sometimes called katabatic wind.

Combination passenger/cargo vessel; a vessel specifically designed to carry both containers and conventional cargoes.

Same as fogbow.

A modification of the dew cell used in radiosonde equipment.

An order in writing by one party to another party to pay a specified sum to a third party or bearer.