An expression used to describe the market in the underlying instrument (for example, shares,.

The number of shares of a company on sale to the public at a given time.

The actual lifting force of an inflated balloon, usually expressed in grams.

An abandoned vessel at sea (a danger to navigation) or Any abandoned vessel.

The difference in depth between high and low tide.

International Organization of Securities Commissioners In the US, this organisation encourages co-operative policies on market regulation, surveillance,.

A buried item, such as junk steel or graphite rods, that serves as the anode for the cathodic protection of pipelines or other buried structures. See also deep groundbed.

The intensity of the internally distributed forces or components of forces that resist a change in the volume or shape of a material that is or has been subjected to external forces. Stress is expressed in force per unit area and is calculated on the basi ...

An anchor that is designed to bury itself into the ground by use of its plow shape. Also called a plow anchor.

A metal appliance consisting of a thread and screw capable of being set up or slacked back and used for setting up on rigging.

Air pressure

A heat exchanger that transfers heat contained in a liquid heat transfer fluid to another liquid.

The abrupt and large increase in electrical conductivity exhibited by some metals as the temperature approaches absolute zero.

A computerised database of some 50,000 investment firms which have been authorised to conduct.

A multihulled boat with three hulls.

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

International Securities Clearing Corporation

A buoyant balloon rising freely in the atmosphere, as opposed to a captive balloon.

Board that holds graph paper on which is plotted information obtained from a pilot-balloon observation.

A method of moving a boat with oars. The person rowing the boat faces backwards, bringing the blade of the oars out of the water and toward the bow of the boat. They then pull the oars through the water toward the stern of the boat, moving the boat forwar ...