All the various sails carried on board a yacht.

Brake Horse Power.

Is a single shaft, positive displacement rotary compressor.

A wood or fiber cover placed around such containers as cans and bottles.

An automatic pressure relieving device actuated by the static pressure upstream of the device, which opens in proportion to the increase in pressure over the opening pressure.

A positive number that characterizes the combining power of an element for other elements, as measured by the number of bonds to other atoms that one atom of the given element forms upon chemical combination: hydrogen is assigned valence 1, and the valenc ...

A company which is owed money by trade debtors faces the risk of slow payment or default on those.

An object designed to increase the radio reflectivity of a boat so that it is more visible on radar. Many small boats are made with fiberglass and other materials that do not reflect radar very well on their own.

Abbreviation for precipitation-evaporation quotient.

Actual Time Used To Count

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Wind with a speed between 28 and 55 knots (32 and 63 mph); Beaufort scale numbers 7 through 10.

is the ratio of the actual velocity at a given point to the velocity of sound in the same gas at the conditions existing at this point. These are known as local conditions.

A thin sheet of semiconductor (photovoltaic material) made by cutting it from a single crystal or ingot.

The highest energy band in a semiconductor that can be filled with electrons.

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Usually the forward berth of the boat, located in the bow

Measuring point for compressor acceptance test. Pressure at the compressor outlet flange.

A graphical plot or representation the current and voltage output of a solar photovoltaic cell or module as a load on the device is increased from short circuit (no load) condition to the open circuit condition; used to characterize cell/module performanc ...

A term for what frequently happened to Nantucket whalers when they left the whaling ship in a small boat to go after a whale. If they harpooned the whale without mortally wounding it, the animal took off with the whaleboat in tow.