GLOSSARY (Cont) - TM-38-4000484

TM 38-400/NAVSUP PUB 572/AFMAN 23-210 MCO 4450.14/DLAM 4145.12

Warehouse chart -(See planograph.) Warehouse denial-

Vacuum packed-Package from which air has been

Advice that a specific item required on a shipping

withdrawn, prior to hermetic sealing.

directive is not available due to stock exhaustion or

Vacuum packaging-A packaging method in which a

other reasons.

commodity is sealed under vacuum.

Warehousing-The performance of physical functions

Vault-A specially constructed, nonportable, burglarproof,

incident to receipt, storage, and issue of supplies.

fire-resistant structure for storage of material

(See definition of storage.) Wet storage-Storage of

requiring maximum protection against pilferage or

ships or other floating equipment, afloat.

destruction.

Wet tank-A tank designated for the storage of liquids.

W-board-Weather-resistant fiberboard of lower grades,

Whipping of yarn-Material with which a rope end is

thicknesses, and bursting strengths than V-board.

bound.

Wand-A reader that is hand held, applicable to bar

Wirebound box-A shipping container whose sides, top,

coding, which when moved across the surface of a

and bottom are of rotary cut lumber, sliced lumber,

bar code, instantly deciphers the code.

resawn lumber, fiberboard or combinations thereof,

Warehouse-A building designed for storage purposes

usually three eighths of an inch or less in thickness,

and constructed with a roof and complete sides and

fastened to cleats and to each other by means of

end walls.

binding wire and staples.

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