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One layer of glass in a window frame. It has very little insulating value (R-1) and provides only a thin barrier to the outside and can account for considerable heat loss and gain.

Category:Energy Terms

Insurance which gives protection to a business or homeowner against property loss, damage and injury.

Category:Financial Terms

Amount of water, expressed as a depth or as a mass, which would be obtained if all the water vapor in a specified column of the atmosphere were condensed and precipitated.

Category:Meteorology

A name usually given to a State body having control or regulation of public utilities.

Category:Sea Words

An urgent message used on a radio regarding the safety of people or property. A PAN PAN message is not used when there is an immediate threat to life or property, instead the MAYDAY call is used. PAN PAN situations may develop into MAYDAY situations. As w ...

Category:Sea Words

The act of calling for freight by truck at the consignor's shipping platform.

Category:Sea Words

The mean distance a free electron or hole moves before recombining with another hole or electron.

Category:Energy Terms

A window located on the roof of a structure to provide interior building spaces with natural daylight, warmth, and ventilation.

Category:Energy Terms

A life insurance policy which pays a benefit on the death of the insured but which also provides a.

Category:Financial Terms

(FSAVC) An employee's pension scheme which is additional to but independent from his occupational pension.

Category:Financial Terms

A type of commodity-product spread involving the purchase of crude oil futures and the sale of.

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Prepare for going to sea, extra lashing on all movable objects.

Category:Sea Words

The gauge pressure at which a safety valve visibly and audibly opens or at setting which a relief valve discharges an unbroken stream of liquid.

Category:Sea Words

Psychrometer to which a small chain or rotary handle is attached so that the observer can rotate the instrument rapidly to properly ventilate the thermometer bulbs.

Category:Meteorology

Depending upon as a condition

Category:Sea Words

A port designated by the government of a country for duty-free entry of any non-prohibited goods. Merchandise may be stored, displayed, used for manufacturing, etc., within the zone and re-exported without duties.

Category:Sea Words

A tall buoy used as a navigational aid.

Category:Sea Words

FO

1.Fuel oil2.For Orders3.Free Out

Category:Abbreviations

A winch used solely for warping, on which a rope may be wound under power but not stored.

Category:Technical Terms

On a square-rigged ship, the act of lowering a spar or yard to the deck.

Category:Sea Words