The reversible potential for an electrode process when all products and reactions are at unit activity on a scale in which the potential for the standard hydrogen half-cell is zero.

A right claim against the guarantors of a loan or draft or bill of exchange.

National Contingency Response

An instrument consisting of a series of graduated cylinders possessing selective collection efficiencies. It is used for the measurement of quantities relating to the size distribution of cloud droplets.

Request For Approval.

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.

Entity to whom money is payable.- The entity for whom a letter of credit is issued. - The seller and the drawer of a draft.

A line on the compass aligned with the centerline of the vessel that indicates the vessel's compass heading. Since it points to the vessel's bow, it enables a course to be steered by bringing the lubber's line to the point on the compass card which indica ...

Steel wire, used to support over-the-side sampling apparatus

Rate of flow of water past a point in a stream, expressed as volume per unit time, i.e. cubic feet per second.

Heavy weight,which gives a ship stability when the vessel is not carrying cargo.

The environmental, social, and economic impacts of producing a good or service that are not directly reflected in the market price of the good or service.

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.

The stress condition in linear elastic fracture mechanics in which the stress in the thickness direction is zero; most nearly achieved in loading very thin sheet along a direction parallel to the surface of the sheet. Under plane-stress conditions, the pl ...

The amount of work done on or by a system is equal to the amount of energy transferred to or from the system.

Disciplinary code in which maritime crimes and punishments are specified.

An emergency signal flare that will float down on a parachute after launch, hopefully improving its visibility.

Wide, a wide boat is a beamy boat

The inability of a person or company to settle debts when they become.

Amount of time for a compressor to complete one cycle.