The product of 1 hour, and usually the number of degrees Fahrenheit the hourly mean temperature is above a base point (usually 65 degrees Fahrenheit); used in roughly estimating or measuring the cooling load in cases where processes heat, heat from buildi ...

An electrical device that adjusts the leading current of an applied alternating current to balance the lag of the circuit to provide a high power factor.

A system operated by the clearing banks in which a paper slip/document instructs a bank branch to.

Operating Differential Subsidy Agreement

The mass density of a parcel of air expressed in units of mass per volume.

The value of a shipment agreed upon in order to secure a specific freight rate.

Integrated bridge control system

Centistokes centi Stokes (1 cSt = 1 mm2/s)

Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic

Numerous shipments from different shippers to one consignee that are consolidated and treated as a single consignment.

To push a sail out so that the wind fills the opposite side, thus slowing the boat down.

See captive balloon, ceiling balloon, constant-level balloon, free balloon, hurricane beacon, kytoon, Moby Dick balloon, pilot balloon, radiosonde balloon, rockoon, skyhook balloon, transosonde.

Marine Custody Transfer Measurement

Embrittlement of ultrahigh-strength steels caused by tempering in the temperature range of 205 to 400

Commodities such as metals, coffee and grain which are bought and sold for use as opposed to hedging.

A loose term denoting that there is a high degree of liquidity in a stock market, which in turn.

Passenger Ship.

Joint Industry Project

A thermometer. the sensitive element of which consists of two metal strips which have different coefficients of expansion and are brazed together. The distortions of the system in response to temperature variations are used as a measure of temperature. It ...

Pieces of soft wood, covered with canvass, placed on the trestle-trees, for the eyes of the rigging to rest upon.