Fair Isaac Corp., or FICO, a company that produces one of the leading credit scores lenders use, offers two scenarios on its website that show how credit missteps (including bankruptcy) can affect scores. In these two scenarios, a bankruptcy filing can lower a credit score by as much as 240 points.
An impeller (also written as impellor or impellar) is a rotor used to increase (or decrease in case of turbines) the pressure and flow of a fluid.
(Mach.) a form of dynamometer for measuring the power a motor exerts. A clamp around the revolving shaft or fly wheel of the motor resists the motion by its friction, the work thus absorbed being ascertained by observing the force required to keep the clamp from revolving with the shaft; a Prony brake.