A City professional whose job is to decide how fund money is invested.

A single, solid, homogeneous crystalline phase containing two or more chemical species.

Coating metal with a very thin layer of molten solder or brazing filler metal.

A hypothetical body which absorbs some constant fraction, between zero and one, of all electromagnetic radiation incident upon it, which fraction is the absorptivity and is independent of wavelength. Compare to black body, white body.

An anemometer in which the sensor rotation is transmitted to a mechanical counter which directly integrates the air movement past the sensor. Used to determine total air passage (wind run). Average wind speed can be calculated from the difference between ...

Foreign Military Financing

The short foot rope at the end of a yard at the outer corner of a square sail used when reefing or furling.

Preventive Machinery Maintenance system.

As defined by the Comprehensive National Energy Act of 1992 (or the Energy Policy Act; EPAct): any organic matter from a plant which is planted for the exclusive purpose of being used to produce energy." This does not include wood or agricultural wastes o ...

General name for a broad, flat-bottomed boat used in transporting cargo between a vessel and the shore. The distinction between a lighter and a barge is more in the manner of use than in equipment. The term "lighter" refers to a short haul, generally in c ...

Being or composed of matter other than hydrocarbons and their derivatives, or matter that is not of plant or animal origin. Contrast with organic.

Wind with a speed between 34 and 40 knots (39 and 46 mph); Beaufort scale number 8.

A unit of luminous flux. The lumen is equal to the luminous flux radiated into a unit solid angle (steradian) from a small source having a luminous intensity of one candle. An ideal source possessing an intensity of one candle in every direction would rad ...

To loose a rope is to let it go

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Shipment of goods to a foreign country.

The addition of a per unit tax onf Social Security), the Benefits Agency was replaced.

A company on the London Stock Exchange with a large market capitalisation, stable earnings,.

In the US, a power of attorney which, subject to conditions and safeguards, continues in force even.

See hydrogen embrittlement.