The parts of a system needed for maintainig the air in a building to specifications.
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HEAVE TO
In maritime parlance and admiralty law . To stop a sailing vessel’sheadway by bringing her head “into the wind,” that is, iu the direction from which thewind blows. A steamer […]
HEAVY CRUDE
Crude oil with 22deg or less API gravity . This is because the asphalt and other heavy hydrocarbon fractions.
HEAVY INDUSTRY
1. auto, mining, petroleum, and steel industries that need a large investment in machinery and big plants. 2. the section of economy that are in need of a lot of […]
HEAVY LIFT VESSEL
A craft made to load and unload cargo. Ships have cranes on them for ramps or can use semisubmersible tools to do the operatoins. It can haul upto 100 tons.
HEAVY MARKET
A market with falling or non changing prices due to buyer shortages. It shows investor uncertainty .
HEAVY METAL
They can be Arsenic, Beryllium, Cadmium, Chromium, Lead, Mercury, Nickel, Selenium, and Manganese. They are used in industrial process and carried by air or water. They stay in organs and […]
HEAVY OIL
A product that remains after the lighter fractions are distilled from crude oil.
HEAVY USERS
One third of the customers of a good or service that make up two thirds of profits.
HEBBERMAN
An unlawful fisher in the Thames below London bridge; so calledbecause they generally fished at ebbing tide or water. 4 Hen. VII. c. 15; Jacob.
HEBBERTHEF
In Saxon law. The privilege of having the goods of a thief, and thetrial of him. within a certain liberty. Cowell.
HEBBING-WEARS
A device for catching fish in ebbing water. St. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 5.
HEBDOMADIUS
A week’s man; the canon or prebendary in a cathedral church, whohad the peculiar care of the choir and the offices of it for his own week. Cowell.
HECCAGIUM
In feudal law. Rent paid to a lord of the fee for a liberty to use the engines called “hocks.”
HECK
An engine to take fish In the river Ouse. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 18.
HECTARE
The land area of 10,000 m2, 107,639 ft2, 11,959 y3, 10ares, or 2.47acres.
HEDA
A small haven, wharf, or landing place.
HEDAGIUM
Toll or customary dues at the hithe or wharf, for landing goods, etc.,from which exemption was granted by the crown to some particular persons andsocieties. Wharton.
HEDGE
An investment that takes position in futures or options to market to reduce the impact of changes in interest rates or prices. Refer to hedging.
HEDGE ACCOUNTING
When a risky trading position and hedge are treated as one to increase profits and prevent loss.
HEDGE FUND
Really risky unregulated US partnership that uses aggressive leverage to make profit when the price changes. It is restricted in tehUS to less than 100 investors with each giving 1 […]
HEDGE FUND MANAGER
A party that is responsible for managing a hedge fund.
HEDGE RATIO
A measure that indicates the price relationship between a reference ASSET and a proxy HEDGE contract. The hedge ratio , which is generally based on a statistical process such as […]
HEDGE-BOTE
An allowance of wood for repairing hedges or fences, which a tenantor lessee has a right to take off the land let or demised to him. 2 Bl. Comm. 35.
HEDGE-PRIEST
A vagabond priest in olden time.