Tubeshaft

Technical Barriers to Trade

Tributyltin

Tanker Chemicals type III.

Tanker Caustic Soda.

Total Calculated Volume

Tender.

Tropical Deadweight

Targeted Export Assistance

A sounding balloon which, when operationally inflated, resembles an inverted teardrop.

Any meteorological instrument, such as a radiosonde, in which the recording apparatus is located at some distance from the measuring apparatus.

The measuring, transmitting, receiving, and indicating apparatus for obtaining the value of a quantity at a distance.

The transmission of data collected at a remote location over communications channels to a central station.

A photometer that measures the received intensity of a distance tight source.

A crane, with its boom structure consisting of several sections, each section being capable of telescoping along the boom’s axial direction and changing its boom length, and its boom being of luffing.

A temperature telemeter.

Used for sending messages to outside companies. Messages are transmitted via Western Union, ITT and RCA. Being replaced by fax and internet.

Ribbon, yarn, or other lightweight material attached to rigging or sails to indicate wind action or direction. Proper use of the telltales can help sailors improve their sail trim.

(1) In heat treatment, to reheat hardened steel or hardened cast iron to some temperature below the eutectoid temperature for the purpose of decreasing hardness and increasing toughness. The process is also sometimes applied to normalized steel. (2) In to ...

A thin, tightly adhering oxide skin (only a few molecules thick) that forms when steel is tempered at a low temperature, or for a short time, in air or a mildly oxidizing atmosphere. The color, which ranges from straw to blue depending on the thickness of ...