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.

A line of equal or constant temperature.

A hand held pneumatic tool. Designed for light demolition work, digging, making holes etc.

The material through which electricity is transmitted, such as an electrical wire, or transmission or distribution line.

Securities which pay a fixed rate of interest. Government bonds (gilts) are the best known example..

A system of physical units based upon the use of the meter, the metric ton (106 grams), and the second as elementary quantities of length, mass, and time, respectively.

A smokestack or flue for exhausting the products of combustion from a combustion appliance.

Technologies that pertain to the generation of electricity.

Reduction in mechanical properties of a metal as a result of local penetration of solder along grain boundaries.

Sustained winds greater than or equal to 40 mph or gust greater than or equal to 58 mph.

A type of knot used to fasten an anchor to its line.

The operation of rinsing out a cask to prepare it for new contents. Casks were once the primary means of carrying on board the necessary water and victuals.

A container fitted with a rear door and a minimum of one side door.

(DRP)A plan which allows private investors to reinvest cash dividends from their investments cheaply.

Ocean vessels constructed with heavy-duty submersible hydraulic lift or elevator system at the stern of the vessel. The Sea-Bee system facilitates forward transfer and positioning of barges. Sea-Bee barges are larger than LASH barges. The Sea-Bee system i ...

Concentration of a solution expressed in moles of solute divided by 1000 g of solvent.

To intercept the wind. A vessel or highland to windward is said to becalm another. So one sail becalms another.