The bearing of a celestial body from an observer's position.

Lower explosive limit (lower flammable limit)

(BOT)The difference between a country's exports and imports over a given period of time.

Permanent Group of Experts (in agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures).

A cover which fits over a large inflated balloon to facilitate handling in high or gusty winds.

Automated Weather Observing Station. A self-contained weather station designed to make aviation weather observations without operator involvement.

See conductivity.

A term applied to a floating object that is moored or anchored so that it remains at one place. Budys are used for marking the places on the water where a ship is sunk, where reefs are below, where the edges of the channel are, or to provide means for moo ...

Primitive plants, usually aquatic, capable of synthesizing their own food by photosynthesis.

A method of growing large size, high quality semiconductor crystal by slowly lifting a seed crystal from a molten bath of the material under careful cooling conditions.

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

An unpreventable and unpredictable event which could cause loss or damage to buildings, land,.

The air external to a building or device.

ECOnomic & SOCial Counsil of the United NationsUN agency parenting the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation, and the IMO.

That time during which weather that prevents working shall not count as laytime

Stands for "Immediate Exit." In the U.S., Customs IE Form is used when goods are brought into the U.S. and are to be immediately re-exported without being transported within the U.S.

To cast off or untie. (See BEND.)

Now used as a Storage Tanker

A rain gauge which indicates but does not record the amount of precipitation captured.

Out Of Gauge.