The amount of precipitation captured by a rain gauge.

An up slope wind due to local surface heating. Opposite of katabatic wind.

Very generally, any moving- stream of air. It has no particular technical connotation.

The relative humidity above which the atmospheric corrosion rate of some metals increases sharply.

The fracture toughness determined under dynamic loading conditions; it is used as an approximation of KIc for very tough materials.

Dcomputer assisted design

General Lighthouse Authority

A fan mounted on an attic wall used to exhaust warm attic air to the outside.

A material that retards the movement of water vapor through a building element (walls, ceilings) and prevents insulation and structural wood from becoming damp and metals from corroding. Often applied to insulation batts or separately in the form of treat ...

One or more anodes installed vertically at a nominal depth of 15 m (50 ft) or more below the earth's surface in a drilled hole for the purpose of supplying cathodic protection for an underground or submerged metallic structure. See also groundbed.

The falling tide when the water recedes out to the sea and the water level lowers; a period or state of decline.

A term used by value investors to describe the issue of shares in a company at a price below the per.

A measure of proportion by weight, equivalent to one unit weight of a material per million (106) unit weights of compound. One part per million is equivalent to l mg/g

Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association The self regulating organisation originally responsible for governing financial advisers. Became.

Free Discharge

See copper-accelerated salt-spray test.

The selective leaching or corrosion of a specific constituent (Al, Ni, Mo, Ni) from an alloy.

A mercury barometer in which the lower mercury surface is larger in area than the upper surface. The basic construction of a cistern barometer is as follows: A glass tube one meter in length, sealed at one end is filled with mercury, and then inverted. Th ...

An automatic, recording cloud height indicator.

Single Anchor Leg Mooring