The value or purchasing power of a dollar in a specified year carried forward or backward.

A unit of volume equal to 1 cubic foot at a pressure base of 14.73 pounds standard per square inch absolute and a temperature base of 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

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

Surface resistance to relative motion, which slows down movement and causes heat.

A European payment scheme in which a person person can use eurocheques and a guarantee card where.

A mutual fund or unit trust which aims to provide investors with a balance of income and capital.

The bank that issues a Letter of Credit on behalf of the Importer.

An ocean carrier company operating vessels not on regular runs or schedules. They call at any port where cargo may be available.

A device in which organic material is biochemically decomposed (digested) by anaerobic bacteria to treat the material and/or to produce biogas.

An accounting term which refers to the amount of income a company receives in the form of interest.

A unit of illuminance or illumination equal to one lumen per foot'. This is the illuminance provided by a light source of one candle at a distance of one foot.

A round wood plug inserted in a hole to cover a nail, screw, or bolt.

Articles which are taken apart to reduce the cubic footage displaced or to make a better shipping unit and are to be re-assembled.

A positive displacement type compressor.

That amount of time that a carrier's equipment may be used without incurring additional charges. (See Storage, Demurrage or Per Diem.)

The process that companies, or more particularly their lawyers and accountants, carry out when one.

An area of low barometric pressure. The wind circulates clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. Generally these are bad weather systems.(2)A severe recession over a lengthy.

Closing small leaks in a vessel's underwater body by drawing a sail, filled with oakum, underneath her.

The frames or timbers of a ship as they rise from the keel to form the shape of the hull.

A bridge that can be raised vertically to allow boats to pass underneath.