The value of the quantity measured, as indicated or otherwise provided by a measuring instrument.

The ratio of the coincident, maximum demand or two or more loads to the sum of their noncoincident maximum demand for a given period; the reciprocal of the diversity factor, and is always less than or equal to one.

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

(1) The edge where the deck joins the hull; top edge of bulwarks. (2) The railing around the deck.

To lash up.

The heavy oxide layer formed during hot fabrication or heat treatment of metals.

The permanent (inelastic) distortion of metals under applied stresses that strain the material beyond its elastic limit.

The outer layer on a coalescing filter that prevents separated liquids from re-entering the air stream. Also known as anti re-entrainment barrier.

Brittle fracture of a metal in which the fracture is between the grains, or crystals, that form the metal. Also called intercrystalline fracture. Contrast with transgranular fracture.

Name sometimes used in place of pyranometer as a generic term.

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Where the water and sky or ground and sky appear to intersect.

A federal government agency created in 1977, that is entrusted to contribute to the welfare of the United States by providing technical information, and a scientific and educational foundation for technology, policy and institutional leadership to achieve ...

Crops grown specifically for their fuel value. These include food crops such as corn and sugarcane, and nonfood crops such as poplar trees and switchgrass. Currently, two energy crops are under development: short-rotation woody crops, which are fast-growi ...

A furnace grate that moves fuel through the combustion chamber

The reaction of a metal or alloy with a sulfur-containing species to produce a sulfur compound that forms on or beneath the surface on the metal or alloy.

A mercury barometer of the fixed cistern type in which a moveable scale terminating in an ivory point is used to compensate for the variations in the height of the mercury in the cistern

A set of weekly colored rainbow arcs sometimes discernable inside a primary rainbow.

The process by which water in plants is transferred as water vapor to the atmosphere. Also, the amount of water so transferred.