The audio-frequency signal transmitted by the Diamond-Hinman radiosonde when the baroswitch pen passes each fifth contact of the commutator up to a number determined by the design of the commutator. It then signals every contact except the fifth, which is ...

Two navigational aids separated in distance so that they can be aligned to determine that a boat lies on a certain line. Transits can be used to determine a boat's position or guide it through a channel. Also called a range.

Greece (Flag)

A term used for lighting appliances; the ratio of lumens received on a flat surface to the light output, in lumens, from a lamp; used to evaluate the effectiveness of luminaries in delivering light.

Defects, such as dangling bonds, induced in an amorphous silicon semiconductor upon initial exposure to light.

A coating process whereby the cleaned and masked component to be coated is heated and rotated on a spindle above the streaming vapor generated by melting and evaporating a coating material source bar with a focused electron beam in an evacuated chamber.

Fracture through or across the crystals or grains of a metal. Also called transcrystalline fracture or intracrystalline fracture. Contrast with intergranular fracture.

The direction toward which the wind is blowing; with the wind.

An aviation weather forecast for a specific flight.

Department Of Defense

The closeness of agreement among a number of consecutive output values measuring the same input value under the same operating conditions, approaching from the same direction. Usually measured as nonrepeatability but expressed as repeatability, a percenta ...

To sail a boat closer to the wind - to steer closer to the wind, usually by pulling in on the sheets

A measure of window glazing performance that is the ratio of the total solar heat gain through a specific window to the total solar heat gain through a single sheet of double-strength glass under the same set of conditions; expressed as a number between 0 ...

A pulpit located on the stern.

A solution or process used to loosen or remove corrosion products such as scale or tarnish.

The center of an area of high pressure, usually accompanied by anticyclonic and outward wind flow. Also known as an anticyclone.

Cylindrical Fire-Tube Boiler Survey

Rank intermediate between officer and rating, and in charge of ratings; more or less equivalent to the rank of sergeant.

Russian Register of Shipping.

Any emission of light at temperatures below that required for incandescence.