A formal agreement made in a.

Light-weight foresail similar to a spinnaker but set without a pole.

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.

To come up more into the wind

The opening between the jib and the mainsail. Wind passing through this opening increases the pressure difference across the sides of the mainsail, helping to move the boat forward.

The purchase of shares in an open end mutual fund directly from the fund company rather than through.

is one in which a portion of the original system energy is dissipated and cannot be returned to the system through its own operation. The system and/or surroundings cannot be returned to their original state.

The structure (in a residential heating appliance, industrial furnace, or power plant) into which combustion gases flow and are contained until they are emitted to the atmosphere.

The angle between a line from a point on the earth's surface to the center of the solar disc, and a line extending horizontally from the point.

The amount of energy that a building absorbs due to solar energy striking its exterior and conducting to the interior or passing through windows and being absorbed by materials in the building.

Short lengths of line attached to the sail used to tie the extra sail out of the way when reefing.

A mobile container-handling crane used to load/unload containers to/from railcars.

A solar photovoltaic device that produces a specified power output under defined test conditions, usually composed of groups of solar cells connected in series, in parallel, or in series-parallel combinations.

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A boat with a flat bottom and square ends.

Convertibles are bonds issued by companies which can be converted into ordinary shares or.

The anti-corrosive paint used on and above the waterline.

The ratio of energy reflected from a surface in a given waveband to the energy incident in that waveband.

When a container or vessel has reached its volumetric capacity before its permitted weight limit.