The maximum rate at which an engine can do work as measured by the resistance of an applied brake. Expressed in horsepower.
A thermodynamic cycle using constant pressure, heat addition and rejection, representing the idealized behavior of the working fluid in a gas turbine type heat engine.
The process of assimilating many small shipments into one large shipment at a central point so that economies of scale may be achieved; to commence discharge of cargo.
To unload and distribute a portion or all of the contents of a rail car, container, or trailer. - Loose, non-containerized cargo.
The forward end of a ship's after superstructure, where the poop deck descends to the upper deck.
When an anchored vessel is forced, by wind or current, to swing across her anchor so as to risk fouling it with her own cable, she is said to break sheer.
Maintenance performed after a machine has failed to return it to an operating state.
The least noble potential where pitting or crevice corrosion, or both, will initiate and propagate.
Is that pressure of either the motive fluid or of the ejector gas discharge which causes an ejector to become unstable.