A term used on the London Stock Exchange to describe a share purchase or sale. The term does not.
A term used by the London Stock Exchange to denote that certain conditions were agreed between the.
A term used by value investors to describe the issue of shares in a company at a price below the per.
A way of loading cargo into large barges and then in turn loading the barges into a ship.
An instrument for measuring the pressure of the atmosphere. The two principle types are aneroid and mercurial.
Is the absolute atmospheric pressure existing at any given point in the atmosphere. It is the weight of a unit column of gas directly above the point of measurement. It varies with altitude, moisture and weather conditions.
A pressure-operated switching device used in a radiosonde. In operation, the expansion of an aneroid capsule causes an electrical contact to scan a radiosonde commutator composed of conductors separated by insulators.
A sailing ship with three to five masts, all of them square-rigged except the after mast, which is fore-and-aft rigged.
Sailing vessel with three or more masts. Square rigged on foremast, fore and aft rigged on all others.