Gross National Product: GDP plus the net income accruing from foreign sources.

film hygrometer element-An electrical hygrometer element constructed of a plastic strip coated with a film of carbon black dispersed in a hygroscopic binder. Variations in atmospheric moisture content vary the volume of the binder and thus change the resi ...

An electrolytic cell, the electromotive force of which is due to a difference in air (oxygen) concentration at one electrode as compared with that at another electrode of the same material; an oxygen concentration cell (a cell resulting from a potential d ...

Technical Advisory Group

Calculation of a loss by an average adjuster.

A person appointed by a company to perform an audit. In the UK auditors are Chartered.

A system that records the consumption of electricity, gas, water, etc, and sends the data to a central data accumulation device.

Tropical Revolving Storm

Charge assessed by a pier or dock owner against freight handled over the pier or dock or against a steamship company using the pier or dock.

Installations character for Cargo Handling Appliances.

Holding oars at right angles to fore and aft line of boat with blades horizontal and parallel to surface of water.

Method of reeving a tackle in order to gain the maximum increase in power.

The temperature of a body referred to the absolute zero, at which point the volume of an ideal gas theoretically becomes zero. (Fahrenheit scale is minus 459.67

A string of vessels which makes a particular voyage and serves a particular market.

Universal Resource Locator

International Labour Organization

A new disease that is sweeping modern Britain, thanks to business success, inheritance, rising.

A shifting of the wind direction, opposite of backing. Clockwise in the northern hemisphere, counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

Lines on the Earths surface joining point where there is no magnetic variation.

General Agreement On Tariffs and Trade 1994 (now WTO)