An unregulated subsidiary of an electric utility that is allowed to generate and sell wholesale power as an independent energy producer, and is exempt from the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.

The direct, diffuse, and reflected solar radiation that strikes a surface.

'Mutual' non-profit-making institutions set up to lend money to their members for house purchase..

Cracking or fracturing that occurs through or across a crystal or grain. Also called transcrystalline cracking. Contrast with intergranular cracking.

The atmospheric pressure computed using station elevation as the reference datum level. Station pressure is usually the base value from which sea level pressure and altimeter setting are determined.

A void or empty space separating two or more compartments for the purpose of insulation, or to prevent the liquid contents of one compartment from entering another in case of a leak.

A small, heavy triangular loose-footed sail fitted aft of the mast and used primarily in very strong winds.

Sea Training/Supply Vessel.

The fluid, liquid (water or water/antifreeze solution) or air, used to absorb solar energy and transfer it for direct use, indirect heating of interior air or domestic water, and/or to a heat storage medium.

A building with more than 50 percent of its floorspace used for commercial activities, which include stores, offices, schools, churches, libraries, museums, health care facilities, warehouses, and government buildings except those on military bases.

The value or purchasing power of a dollar that has not been reduced to a common basis of constant purchasing power, but instead reflects anticipated future inflation; when used in computations the assumed inflation rate must be stated.

1.06 liquid U.S. quarts or 33.9 fluid ounces.

Transmit high-voltage electricity from the transformer to the electric distribution system.

A method of calculating the net asset value of a company, for example an investment trust, after.

A payment made out of a sense of moral rather than legal.

See transgranular.

A unit of energy equal to 1.356joules.

A general term for atmospheric water in any of its forms, i.e. clouds, fog, hail, ice crystals, rain.

Loose ends of line left hanging over a ship's side.

A line of equal or constant temperature.