Indian Register Quality Systems

Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act

An approximate unit of heat produced by a resting person, equal to about 18.5 Btu per square foot per hour.

The warehouse or public stores to which samples of imported goods are taken to be inspected, analyzed, weighed, etc. by examiners or appraisers.

Corrosion testing in a boiling solution of nitric acid. This test is mainly used to detect the susceptibilty to intergranular corrosion of stainless steel.

Heating an alloy to a suitable temperature, holding at that temperature long enough to cause one or more constituents to enter into solid solution, and then cooling rapidly enough to hold these constituents in solution.

Wind with a speed between 17 and 21 knots (19 and 24 mph); Beaufort scale number 5.

A method of payment for goods in which the buyer pays the seller in advance of the shipment of goods. Usually employed when the goods, such as specialized machinery, are built to order.

A record maintained by a trading specialist of buy and sell orders for a given.

An anemometer which measures wind speed by means of the properties of wind-borne sound waves. It operates on the principle that the propagation velocity of a sound wave in a moving medium is equal to the velocity of sound with respect to the medium plus t ...

International Oil Pollution Fund

A number system used to describe wind forces and sea conditions from 0 for a flat calm to 12 for a hurricane

The energy lost from the movement of a fluid in a conduit (pipe) due to the disturbances created by the contact of the moving fluid with the surfaces of the conduit, or the additional pressure that a pump must provide to overcome the resistance to fluid f ...

When all money in a portfolio is invested in securities as opposed to retaining some cash, it is.

A class of rain gauge in which the level of the collected rain water is measured by the position of a float resting on the surface of the water.

The meteorological visual range, which can be estimated from the average extinction coefficient using the Koschmieder equation.

To send electricity through a electricity transmission and distribution network; a conductor or power line that is carrying current.

A dinghy or raft that can be inflated for use or deflated for easy stowage.

The use of spending and taxation by the government in order to achieve its economic objectives. Put.

A type of atmometer. It is a pan used in the measurement of the evaporation of water into the atmosphere. The NWS Class A pan is a cylindrical container 48 inches in diameter and 10 inches deep.