Tanks carried in various parts of a ship for water ballast, for stability and to make the ship seaworthy.

This is a positive constant, k, that is a property of a substance and is used in the calculation of heat transfer rates for materials. It is the amount of heat that flows through a specified area and thickness of a material over a specified period of time ...

Of or pertaining to rain.

Thermometer used for measuring the lowest temperature attained during a given interval of time, for example, a day.

Running a compressed air system at a higher than needed pressure.

Public Law

An auxiliary engine used for furnishing power for a variety of small mechanical chores.

Any point of sail with the wind coming from the side of the boat. If the wind is coming from directly over the side, it is a beam reach. If the wind is coming from forward of abeam it is a close reach. If the wind is coming from over the quarter, it is ca ...

A sales incentive, commonly used on mortgages, which gives customers a cash sum as soon as the deal.

Some unit trusts offer a floor price and guarantee their bid price will not be allowed to fall.

The shares of companies participating in high technology fields such as computers, semiconductors.

A U-shaped fitting closed with a pin across the open ends, the pin sometimes being threaded at one end and sometimes held in place with a cotter pin, and used to secure sails to lines or fittings, lines to fittings, fittings to fittings, anchors to chain, ...

A computer software program that simulates energy consumption of commercial buildings; used for design and auditing purposes.

An air-launched balloon designed to be released in the eye of a tropical cyclone, float within the eye at predetermined levels, and transmit radio signals for RDF positioning.

The algebraic difference between the upper and lower limits of the measuring range of an instrument, i.e. a thermometer with a range of -35 to 50

Navigation rules governing waters inside designated demarcation zones

Release of contained gas in the vaccum of outer space. eg. rapid destructive expansion of plastics and similar materials.

A cracking process that requires the simultaneous action of a corrodent and sustained tensile stress. This excludes corrosion-reduced sections that fail by fast fracture. It also excludes intercrystalline or transcrystalline corrosion, which can disintegr ...

Heavy, linked chain secured to an anchor for mooring or anchoring.

A clay atmometer consisting of a hollow ceramic sphere through which evaporation occurs. Evaporation is measured by the loss of water from the reservoir which feeds the sphere.