A term used for materials used to absorb and store solar energy.

Unjustified overtrading by a stockbroker or fund manager.

Single tariff item, established to move multiple commodities needed for a specified project, usually construction.

Sailing as close to the wind as possible with all sails full and drawing.

Without sufficient crew.

A private trust which empowers trustees to use their discretion in distributing funds to.

The yield on a security before the deduction of tax. Yield is a measure of the return on an.

To gain hydrodynamic lift, causing the boat to lift, rising slightly out of the water so that it is gliding over the water rather than plowing through it, reaching speeds in excess of those normally associated with its waterline length.

Cabin; sleeping compartment.

Electrical measurement. The output of one or several electric machines. Load also denotes the power carried by a particular circuit.

A card, issued by a bank (or a building society in the UK), which guarantees the payment of a cheque.

The inherent imprecision of a given process of measurement, the unpredictable component of repeated independent measurements of the same object under sensibly uniform conditions.

The difference between the discharge pressure and the intake pressure.

(1) A spar. Such as a pole used to position a sail (e.g., spinnaker pole or whisker pole, which serves the same purpose for a jib). (2) One of the two points around which the earth spins, known as the north and south poles.

A wind coming from the southwest

Has to do with the properties of air-water vapor mixtures in the atmosphere.

The elements and compounds that result from the combustion of a fuel.

A protective options strategy in which a written call and a long put are taken against a previously.

A formal notice to the writer of an option from a clearing house that an option has been exercised.

freezing of a piston ring in its groove in a piston engine or reciprocating compressor due to heavy deposits in the piston ring zone.