An interior court to which rooms open.

One quadrillion Btu. (1,000,000,000,000,000 Btu)

Term for a seaman's short leave from his ship, permitting him to go ashore for the day or night.

Thailand Home Trade Service.

Biomass converted directly to energy or converted to liquid or gaseous fuels such as ethanol, methanol, methane, and hydrogen.

The amount of electromotive force, measured in volts, that exists between two points.

An instrument that automatically records pressure and temperature.

A combination of banking and insurance business. A high street bank, for example, might sell both.

Land Earth Station

pattern barometer-Mercurial barometer with a fixed scale and cistern and which therefore requires only one adjustment before each reading.

Continuous Survey of Hull

(1) An iron mineral crystallizing in therhombohedral system; the most important oreof iron. (2) An iron oxide, Fe,O,, corrcsponding to an iron content of approximately 70%.

A type of electrical current, the direction of which is reversed at regular intervals or cycles; in the U.S. the standard is 120 reversals or 60 cycles per second; typically abbreviated as AC.

To combine or charge with gas.

International Council of Cruise Lines

Medical First Aid Guide

United States Coast Guard

Allows equipment and supplies arriving at one port to be loaded on a vessel, aircraft, etc., for its exclusive use and to be exported from the same port.

A wall that carries ceiling rafters or roof trusses.

A chromate conversion coating produced on magnesium alloys in a boiling solution of sodium dichromate.