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

Side stays from the masthead to the rail..

A high efficiency silicon photovoltaic concentrator cell that employs light trapping techniques and point-diffused contacts on the rear surface for current collection.

An office, represented in most towns in the UK, where the public can obtain free advice on an.

Thin plates attached to the exterior of the hull to deaden any rolling.

The swell of a ship's hull around the propeller shaft.

(1) Clear, not tangled. (2) sailing free: a vessel is sailing free when her sheets are eased. (3) running free: to sail with the wind from astern.

A system of reefing a sail by partially furling it. Roller furling systems are not necessarily designed to support roller reefing.

The rotating element of a machine and, in the case of a compressor, is composed of the impeller (impellers) and shaft, and may include shaft sleeves and a thrust balancing device.

In spray painting applications, Spray equipment which delivers material at a low pressure of no more than 10 PSI (at the air cap), however, with greater volume of air.

A contract between an insurer and the insured. The insurer agrees to pay money to the insured upon.

The capacity for floating.

In spray painting applications, a sealed paint cup with a paint gun which puts a measured amount of air pressure into it. This then forces the paint to the gun for atomization.

A stationary passage surrounding an impeller, in which velocity pressure imparted to the flow medium by the impeller is converted into static pressure.

The process of designing a solar system to meet a specified load given the solar resource and the nominal or rated energy output of the solar energy collection or conversion device.

Waterproof clothing.

Are lines that supply equipment from sub headers.

Maintenance performed after a machine has failed to return it to an operating state.

Said of a vessel that is firm, strong, and unlikely to develop leaks.

A machinery device, which, with assist of the friction between reel and nets, lifts nets onto the board, shore, or ice surface from water.