ANSI specification for a Compressed air supply source that meets OSHA specification # 1910.134(i)(1)(ii)requirements for breathing air.

The total value of a deceased person's assets.

The successor to the European Currency Unit (ECU) as the European currency. The euro was introduced.

The spontaneous chipping, fragmentation, or separation of a surtace or surface coating.

The part of a block which is opposite the swallow, which is where the line enters.

New York Society of Maritime Arbitrators

The act of the U.S. Congress (1916) that created the U.S. Shipping Board to develop water transportation, operate the merchant ships owned by the government, and regulate the water carriers engaged in commerce under the flag of the United States. As of Ju ...

That part of an electricity bill that is based on the amount of electrical energy consumed or supplied.

A construction element used to cover the exterior of wall framing and roof trusses.

An endowment policy in which the savings element is significantly.

A policy which covers the insured and usually his/her family for the duration of their holiday. .

An instrument for studying, or examining substances in, polarized light. See Savant polariscope.

Instructions given by a shipper to a bank indicating that documents transferring title to goods should be delivered to the buyer only upon the buyer's acceptance of the attached draft.

Used to denote movements of cargo containers interchangeably between transport modes, i.e., motor, water, and air carriers, and where the equipment is compatible within the multiple systems.

A rotating device, with two or more blades, that acts as a screw in propelling a vessel. Sometimes called a screw.

A chemical element (impurity) added in small amounts to an otherwise pure semiconductor material to modify the electrical properties of the material. An n-dopant introduces more electrons. A p-dopant creates electron vacancies (holes).

A popular term used to describe the heating effect due to the trapping of long wave (length) radiation by greenhouse gases produced from natural and human sources.

A unit of pressure [hydraulic (liquid) or pneumatic (gas)] that does not include atmospheric pressure.

Line drawn through geographical points recording equal amounts of precipitation during a given time period or for a particular storm.

That geographical belt located approximately in 40 degrees south latitude in which are encountered the prevailing or stormy westerlies.