The amount of atmospheric dust which a filter will capture.

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An auction of multiple identical items in which the winning bidder pays the price bid by the lowest.

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The duration and periodicity of the operation of a device.

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Percentage of time a compressor unit can operate at full load over a thirty minute period.

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Those spaces in which the main navigating equipment, the ship's radio or the emergency source of power are located or where the fire recording or fire control equipment is centralized and also those spaces used for galleys, main pantries, stores (except i ...

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DVS

Installations character for Diving systems.

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DW

Distilled Water or Drill Water.

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Deadweight Cargo Tons or the weight of to be transported under a charter party

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DWT

Deadweight tons.

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Format for digital cartographic data

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An inspection method for welding, forgings etc. based on the ability of certain types of liquids to enter voids and crevices by capillary action and to remain there when the surface liquid is removed.

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The condition of an electrode when the rate of anodic dissolution just balances the rate of cathodic plating.885

The pressure equivalent of the velocity of a fluid.

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Friction against duct walls, internal friction in the air mass and direction variations will cause a speed reduction and are therefore called dynamic losses.

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Machines in which air or gas is compressed by the mechanical action of rotating vanes or impellers imparting velocity and pressure to the flowing medium. (Raise the pressure of the air by converting the energy from the velocity of the air to pressure.)

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Is the force in newton required to move a fluid layer of one square meter area and a thickness of one meter with a velocity of one meter per second.

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A craft which is operable on or above water and which has characteristics different from those of conventional displacement ships. Within the aforementioned generality, a craft which complies with either of the following characteristics: .I the weight, ...

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A machine for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy by magneto-electric induction; may be used as a motor.

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An apparatus for measuring force or power, especially the power developed by a motor.

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The absolute centimeter-gram-second unit of force; that force that will impart to a free mass of one gram an acceleration of one centimeter per second per second.

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