The carrier issuing transportation documents or publishing a tariff.

The trapping of light by refraction and reflection at critical angles inside a semiconductor device so that it cannot escape the device and must be eventually absorbed by the semiconductor.

The total value of all a company's separate operations if sold separately.

The region around the equator between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. The tropics are known for their warm weather.

Deep internal cracks caused by hydrogen.

A technique for making winds aloft observations in which two theodolites located at either end of a baseline follow the ascent of a pilot balloon. Synchronous measurements of the elevation and azimuth angles of the balloon. taken at periodic intervals, pe ...

ACRONYM - Approach temperature. Usually the difference between cooling water temperature in to compressed air temperature out of an inter-cooler or after-cooler. Sometimes used to define oil cooler efficiency (cooling water temperature in to oil temperatu ...

The largest circle which can be inscribed on a sphere by a plane that cuts through the center of the sphere. On the earth, the equator is a great circle, as are all the meridians of longitude which pass through both poles. The shortest distance between tw ...

The nominal voltage for which a conductor or electrical appliance is designed; the reference voltage for identification and not necessarily the precise voltage at which it operates.

Water heated for residential washing, bathing, etc.

Through transportation of a container and its contents from consignor to consignee. Also known as House to House. Not necessarily a through rate.

A water heater that releases hot water from the top of the tank when a hot water tap is opened. To replace that hot water, cold water enters the bottom of the tank to ensure a full tank.

Glass, plastic panels, or plastic sheets that reduce air infiltration and some heat loss when attached to either the interior or exterior of existing windows.

A furnace grate that moves fuel through the combustion chamber

See: 'calendar.

The stationary seating surface, the inlet of a valve.

Resin formed from reactions involving furfuryl alcohol alone or in combination with other constituents.

The current distribution in an electrolytic cell that is free of polarization.

The component of either a liquid or solid solution that is present to a greater or major extent; the component that dissolves the solute.

A dining room on a ship.