Materials that prevent or slow down the movement of heat.

A powered hinge.

Also stability sail or riding sail. Any small sail set to help the boat maintain its direction without necessarily moving, as when at anchor or in heavy weather.

A bond, issued and underwritten by international syndicates of banks and issuing houses and sold to.

When a company decides to list its shares on a stock market it has to go through an elaborate.

The Financial Services Act 1986 defines investment business to include dealing, arranging deals in,.

A tendency for some alloys to separate along grain boundaries when stressed ordeformed at temperatures near the melting point.Hot shortness is caused by a low-melting constituent, often present only in minute amounts,that is segregated at grain boundaries ...

Between crystals or grains. Also called intercrystalline. Contrast with transgranular.

A rotation anemometer which has a horizontal axis upon which helicoidal shaped vanes are mounted. See windmill anemometer.

Secretly, to remove spirit from a keg or cask by making a small hole and sucking through a straw. also called Suck the Monkey

Where the engines of a ship are confined.

Used to describe a light that blinks on and off, where the period of light is shorter than the period of darkness separating the flashes.

To luff or luff up is to head into the wind, causing sails to flutter.

A draft that matures at a fixed or determinable time after presentation or acceptance.

An electrical device that resists electric current flow.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer's least favourite part of the economy - also known as the cash.

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

The ability of a metal to absorb energy and deform plastically before fracturing.

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

The time required for an instrument to register a designated percentage (frequently 90%) of a step change in the variable being measured.